"The uneducated father in fustian and the educated boy in spectacles" — Barnard's twenty-fourth illustration for Book 9, chap. v. The Household Edition of Forster's <span class="book">Life of Charles Dickens</span> (1842)

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The uneducated father in fustian and the educated boy in spectacles

Fred Barnard

1872

Composite woodblock-engraving by the Dalziels

13.8 cm high by 10.4 cm wide, framed

Twenty-fourth final illustration for the volume edition of John Forster's The Life of Charles Dickens, Book Nine, Chapter 5.

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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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References

Barnard, Fred, et al. Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens; being eight hundred and sixty-six drawings by Fred Barnard, Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), J. Mahoney [and others] printed from the original woodblocks engraved for "The Household edition". London: Chapman & Hall, 1908. P. 581.

The copy of the book from which these pictures were scanned is in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

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