"Quilp on his Hammock" — Furniss's twenty-second illustration for Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop" (1910)

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Quilp on his Hammock

Peeping cautiously over the side of his hammock, Mr. Quilp descried Mrs. Quilp, whom he startled by yelling out, "Halloa!" "Oh, Quilp!’" cried his poor little wife, looking up. "How you frightened me!"

Harry Furniss

1910

14.4 x 9.4 cm, vignetted

Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, The Charles Dickens Library Edition, facing V, Chapter L, facing 368.

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Passage Illustrated

The first sound that met his ears in the morning — as he half opened his eyes, and, finding himself so unusually near the ceiling, entertained a drowsy idea that he must have been transformed into a fly or blue-bottle in the course of the night, — was that of a stifled sobbing and weeping in the room. Peeping cautiously over the side of his hammock, he descried Mrs. Quilp, to whom, after contemplating her for some time in silence, he communicated a violent start by suddenly yelling out — "Halloa!"

"Oh, Quilp!" cried his poor little wife, looking up. "How you frightened me!"

"I meant to, you jade," returned the dwarf. "What do you want here? I’m dead, an’t I?" [Chapter L, 373]

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Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. The Charles Dickens Library Edition. 18 vols. London: Educational Book Company, 1910. V.

Created 8 May 2020

Last modified 27 November 2020