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"I don't think he put his arm round my waist to support me."

Harper & Bros. house illustrator William Jewett

Wood engraving

17.5 x 11.5 cm

The second illustration for the eighteenth weekly part of Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone: A Romance in the Harper's Weekly (2 May 1868), page 277. [Click on the image to enlarge it.]

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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Illustrations courtesy of the E. J. Pratt Fine Arts Library, University of Toronto, and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia.