John Peerybingle's Fireside

Fred Barnard

1878

14 x 10.7 cm, framed

This initial illustration for the Household Edition of Dickens's Christmas Books depicts John Peerybingle, Dot, Baby, and Tilly Slowboy, characters in The Cricket on the Hearth, "Chirp the First."

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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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