His line is genteel comedy — his father's coal and potato. He does Alfred Highflier in the last piece, and very well he'll do it — at the price.

Fred Barnard

1876

Vignette 14 cm x 10.6 cm.

Sketches by Boz

Three-quarter-page illustration for "Scenes," Ch. 11, in Dickens's Sketches by Boz, the thirteenth volume of the Household Edition

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