Preparatory drawing for title-page vignette

Phiz

June 1844

Steel-engraving

16.7 cm high by 9.5 cm wide, vignetted

Study for the engraved title-page of Charles Dickens's Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: source: Steig, No. 56, from the British Museum. Reproduced by permission of the author.

[Compare to published etching, July 1844.]

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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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