"Do you see this?" — for Chap. XXXVII by Charles Green. 1876. 9.6 cm high by x 13.8 cm wide. Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, in the 1876 British Household Edition, XII: 136. Running head: "Punch in Bevis Marks" (135). [Click on the image to enlarge it.]
Context of the Illustration: Dick Swiveller witnesses Child Abuse
"Are you there?" said Miss Sally.
"Yes, ma’am," was the answer in a weak voice.
"Go further away from the leg of mutton, or you’ll be picking it, I know," said Miss Sally.
The girl withdrew into a corner, while Miss Brass took a key from her pocket, and opening the safe, brought from it a dreary waste of cold potatoes, looking as eatable as Stonehenge. This she placed before the small servant, ordering her to sit down before it, and then, taking up a great carving-knife, made a mighty show of sharpening it upon the carving-fork.
"Do you see this?" said Miss Brass, slicing off about two square inches of cold mutton, after all this preparation, and holding it out on the point of the fork.
The small servant looked hard enough at it with her hungry eyes to see every shred of it, small as it was, and answered, "yes." [end of Chapter XXXVI, 135].
Related Material about The Old Curiosity Shop
- Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (homepage)
- The Old Curiosity Shop Illustrated: A Team Effort by "The Clock Works"
- Illustrated Editions of The Old Curiosity Shop
- Kyd's Characters from Dickens (1889)
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Bibliography: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841-1924)
Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. Illustrated by Charles Green. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1876. XII.
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22 November 2020