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The Old Curiosity Shop, Quilp mocks the figurehead

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, first published in the weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock from 1840 to 1841 and then as its own book in 1841. Is it like Kit - is it his picture, his image, his very self? cried the dwarf. The malicious hunchbacked dwarf moneylender, Daniel Quilp, sees in an old battered ship's figurehead the likeness of Kit Nubbles, while Sampson Brass, Quilp's attorney, stands off as far as he can

Picture No
10583064
Media ID
47542526
Size
4699px x 4009px (5.9MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Illustration by Hablot Browne Phiz', engraved by Ebenezer Landells, c. 1850
Date
C.1850

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