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"Try to forgive me, mamma"

Harper & Bros. house illustrator William Jewett ("W. J.")

Wood engraving

17.4 x 11.5 cm

The second full-sized illustration for the eleventh weekly part of Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone: A Romance in Harper's Weekly (14 March 1868), page 165. [Click on the image to enlarge it.]

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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Illustrations courtesy of the E. J. Pratt Fine Arts Library, University of Toronto, and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia.