Mr. Bob Sawyer and Mr. Ben Allen

Sol Eytinge

Wood engraving, approximately 10 cm high by 7.5 cm wide (framed)

Illustration for Dickens's The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club in the Ticknor and Fields (Boston, 1867) Diamond Edition, facing p. 317.

In this thirteenth full-page character study for the last novel in the compact American publication, Eytinge focuses on the whimsical pair of medical students, Ben Allen and Bob Sawyer. [continued below]

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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