Dolge Orlick

"Dolge Orlick"

Harry Furniss

1910

7 x 4.5 inches

"Joe Gargery kept a journeyman whose name was Orlick. He was a broad-shouldered, loose-limbed, swarthy fellow of great strength. On working-days he would come slouching, with his hands in his pockets and his dinner loosely tied in a bundle round his neck, and dangling on his back"

Dickens's Great Expectations, Library Edition, p. 105.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham

This image is reproduced courtesy of The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LF