Marley's Ghost —
John Leech
1843
Hand-coloured steeling engraving
9 .8 x 8 cm vignetted
Dickens's A Christmas Carol, first edition (1843).
Leech's illustration captures the precise moment when the miser, in nightgown and sitting down before his fitful fire to enjoy a bowl of gruel, encounters the ghost of his dead partner.
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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.
Full-page illustration for Dickens's Christmas Carol: Marley's Ghost