"The tutor's request" by John McLenan. Illustration for Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, II, Chapter 10, "Two Promises" (Charles Darnay and Dr. Manette in the parlour of the house in Soho, London).
McLenan's illustration, the second for the eleventh installment of the novel, appeared in Harper's Weekly (16 July 1859): 453; this installment appeared previously in UK on 9 July 1859 in All the Year Round]. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one. .]
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