"What is this?" ("The Shoemaker")

Fred Barnard

1870s

13.8 x 10.6 cm

Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Book I, chap. vi

Lucie Manette, who has long thought herself an orphan, and Dr. Manette (who has lost his identity through long years of imprisonment in the Bastille) meet at last in the garret above the Defarges' wine shop in the seedy Paris district of St. Antoine.

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