"Mr. Toots and The Chicken" — Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s fourteenth illustration for Dickens's "Dombey and Son" (1867)

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Mr. Toots and The Chicken

Sol Eytinge, Jr.

1867

Wood-engraving

10 x 7.4 cm (framed)

Dickens's Dombey and Son (Diamond Edition), facing III, 457.

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Passage Illustrated: Game Chicken and his Pupil in Pugilism

Mr Toots was accompanied by the Chicken, whom he had of late brought with him every evening, and left in the shop, with an idea that unforeseen circumstances might arise from without, in which the prowess of that distinguished character would be of service to the Midshipman. The Chicken did not appear to be in a particularly good humour on this occasion. Either the gas-lamps were treacherous, or he cocked his eye in a hideous manner, and likewise distorted his nose, when Mr Toots, crossing the road, looked back over his shoulder at the room where Florence slept. On the road home, he was more demonstrative of aggressive intentions against the other foot-passengers, than comported with a professor of the peaceful art of self-defence. Arrived at home, instead of leaving Mr. Toots in his apartments when he had escorted him thither, he remained before him weighing his white hat in both hands by the brim, and twitching his head and nose (both of which had been many times broken, and but indifferently repaired), with an air of decided disrespect. [Chapter LVI, "Several People delighted, and the Game Chicken disgusted," 457]

Related Material, including Other Illustrated Editions of Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son (homepage)
The Diamond Edition of Charles Dickens’s Works
Phiz's Illustrations for Dombey and Son, Wholesale Retail & for Exportation (Oct. 1846 - April 1848)
Fred Barnard's 61 illustrations for the Household Edition (1872)
Kyd's five Player's Cigarette Cards, 1910
Harry Furniss's 29 Illustrations for the Charles Dickes Library Edition (1910)

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). 8 coloured plates. London and Edinburgh: Caxton and Ballantyne, Hanson, 1910.

_______. Dombey and Son.16 Illustrations by Sol Eytinge, Jr., and A. V. S. Anthony (engraver). The Diamond Edition. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. III.

Hammerton, J. A.. "Ch. XVI. Dombey and Son." The Dickens Picture-Book. London: Educational Book Co., [1910], 294-338.

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