The antic fellow​ and Sikes

Frederic W. Pailthorpe

1886

10.6 cm high by 9.1 cm wide (4 inches by 3 ½ inches), vignetted

Eighteenth illustration for Oliver Twist in F. W. Pailthorpe's twenty-one​hand-tinted engravings for the 1838 three-volume Richard Bentley (first) edition. This illustration is keyed to vol. III, p. 205.

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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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