Mr. Claypole earning a genteel subsistence

Frederic W. Pailthorpe

1886

11.2​x 8.5 cm (4 ⅜ inches by 3 ⅜ inches), vignetted

Twenty-first 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. 3, p. ​311.

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