[Poor Mercantile Jack]

Edward G. Dalziel

Wood engraving

Dickens's "Poor Mercantile Jack," in The Uncommercial Traveller

"Stood a creature remotely in the likeness of a young man, with a puffed, sallow face, and a figure all dirty and slimy, who may have been the youngest son of his filthy old father, Thames" (p. 594).

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham

Note the "Found Drowned" notice at lower left, which also appears in Our Mutual Friend and Watts's painting of that name.

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References

Dickens, Charles. The Uncommercial Traveller. Works, Volume 20. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, nd.

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Last modified 31 July 2007