"Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness" from a Lithograph by Fred Barnard (1884)

Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness

Fred Barnard

1912

Photogravure from 1885 chromolithograph

9.5 cm wide by 11.9 cm high

Volume VII, Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop in the Co-operative Publication Society Edition (1912)

Terry-Lynn Johnson Collection.

"Oh, please," said a little voice very low down in the doorway, "will you come and show the lodgings?"

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Passage Illustrated: A Fateful Meeting at the Brasses'

"Come in!" said Dick."Don’t stand upon ceremony. The business will get rather complicated if I’ve many more customers. Come in!"

"Oh, please," said a little voice very low down in the doorway, "will you come and show the lodgings?"

Dick leant over the table, and descried a small slipshod girl in a dirty coarse apron and bib, which left nothing of her visible but her face and feet. She might as well have been dressed in a violin-case.

"Why, who are you?" said Dick.

To which the only reply was, "Oh, please will you come and show the lodgings?"

There never was such an old-fashioned child in her looks and manner. She must have been at work from her cradle. She seemed as much afraid of Dick, as Dick was amazed at her. [Chapter XXXIV in the Household Edition, 126]

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Dick Swiveller and The Marchioness (A Series of Character Sketches from Dickens, from the Original Drawings by Frederick Barnard, Being Facsimiles of Original Drawings by Fred. Barnard. Series 3. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1885.)
The Marchioness in Charles Dickens's The Old Curiositry Shop (1840) — A Brilliant Afterthought

Related Resources Including Other Illustrated Editions

The Old Curiosity Shop Illustrated: A Team Effort by "The Clock Works" (1841)
Phiz's Illustrations of The Old Curiosity Shop.
Cattermole's Illustrations of The Old Curiosity Shop.
Frontispieces to the three-volume edition of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, illustrated by Felix Octavius Carr Darley in the James G. Gregory (New York) Household Edition (1861-71)
The Old Curiosity Shop by Sol Eytinge, Jr., in the Boston Diamond Edition (1867)
The Old Curiosity Shop by Thomas Worth in the American Household Edition (1874)
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Green in the British Household Edition (1876)
The Old Curiosity Shop by W. H. C. Groome in the Collins' Clear-Type Press Edition (1900)
The Old Curiosity Shop by Harry Furniss in the British Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910)
J. Clayton Clarke ("Kyd") (13 lithographs from watercolours)
Harold Copping (2 plates selected)

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop in Master Humphrey's Clock. Illustrated by Phiz, George Cattermole, Samuel Williams, and Daniel Maclise. 3 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.

Dickens, Charles. Works. The Old Curiosity Shop. Photogravure-Illustrated Edition. New York and London: Co-operative Publication Society, [n. d., 1912?].

A Series of Character Sketches from Dickens, from the Original Drawings by Frederick Barnard, Being Facsimiles of Original Drawings by Fred. Barnard. Series 3: Wilkins Micawber; Miss Betsey Trotwood; Captain Edward Cuttle; Uriah Heep; Dick Swiveller and The Marchioness; and Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1885.

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