"Captain Cuttle and Walter's Return" — Furniss's twenty-fourth lithograph for Dickens's "Dombey and Son" (1910)

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Captain Cuttle and Walter's Return

Harry Furniss

1910

14.1 x 8.9 cm, vignetted

Dickens's Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation, Vol. 9 of the Charles Dickens Library Edition, facing p. 704.

Captain Cuttle, in a fit of delirium, put his glazed hat on, and essayed to sing a verse of "Lovely Peg," but broke down at the first word.

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Passage Illustrated: Florence and Captain Cuttle overjoyed at Walter's "Return to Life"

Captain Cuttle, in a fit of delirium, attempted to wipe his head with the blackened toast upon his hook: and finding it an uncongenial substance for the purpose, put it into the crown of his glazed hat, put the glazed hat on with some difficulty, essayed to sing a verse of Lovely Peg, broke down at the first word, and retired into the shop, whence he presently came back express, with a face all flushed and besmeared, and the starch completely taken out of his shirt-collar, to say these words:

"Wal’r, my lad, here is a little bit of property as I should wish to make over, jintly!" [Chapter 49, "The Midshipman makes a Discovery," 708]

Pertinent Scenes from Other Illustrated Editions (1847 and 1910)

Left: Phiz's dramatisation of climactic return of Walter Gay later in this same chapter: The Shadow in the Little Parlour (Ch. 49, January 1848). Right: Fred Barnard's scene in the Household Edition for this chapter focuses on Florence's relationship with Captain Cuttle: When he had filled his pipe in an absolute reverie of satisfaction, Florence lighted it for him (1877).

Related Material, including Other Illustrated Editions of Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son (homepage)
Phiz's Illustrations for Dombey and Son, Wholesale Retail & for Exportation (Oct. 1846 - April 1848)
O. C. Darley's Frontispiece in the New York edition (Vol. 1, 1862)
O. C. Darley's Frontispiece in the New York edition (Vol. 2, 1862)
O. C. Darley's Frontispiece in the New York edition (Vol. 3, 1862)
Sol Eytinge, Junior's 16 Diamond Edition Illustrations (1867)
Fred Barnard's 61 illustrations for the Household Edition (1872)
Kyd's five Player's Cigarette Cards, 1910

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. The Charles Dickens Library Edition. London: Educational Book Company, 1910. IX.

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

_______. Dombey and Son. Illustrated by Fred Barnard [62 composite wood-block engravings]. The Works of Charles Dickens. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. XV.

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