Discovery Of Jingle In The Fleet

DESCRIPTION: This classic illustration is titled 'Discovery Of Jingle In The Fleet'. Artist: The serially collectible Hablot Knight Browne, widely known by his pen name Phiz.  Created for Charles Dickens's serialized novel The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (The Pickwick Papers), specifically the Lombard Street edition of 1932. This image (illustration to page 239) depicts the common room of the Fleet Prison, a notorious debtors' prison in London where Mr. Pickwick has voluntarily committed himself out of a stubborn refusal to pay damages to Mrs. Bardell. Pickwick stands in the centre, stunned and dropping his hat, as he discovers his old acquaintance—the slippery, fast-talking trickster Alfred Jingle—reduced to a despondent, ragged, and starving state in the squalor of the prison! STYLE: Engraving COLOUR: Monochrome SIZE (cm; mount board typically a few mm larger): 12.75 x 17.00 CREATORS: “Phiz” PUBLICATION: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (The Lombard Street Edition) PUBLISHER: London: The Piccadilly Fountain Press DATE: 1941 COMMENTS: Excellent condition with patina of age SUBJECT: PACKAGE: Single one-sided sheet in acid-free mount, flat & unfolded inside hard-backed envelope. Royal Mail Tracked 24 included. Note: Images are provided for illustration purposes only and are intended to show the complete printed product, including any imperfections of age that may be present. Frames or props shown in the images are for display purposes only and are not included with your purchase.