Now For Pickwick's Paper

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Now For Pickwick's Paper

Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird) (1887-1965)

Price

£350

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

2 x 3 inches

Illustrated

Punch, 15 September 1954, page 329

Exhibited

'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1831-2023', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November-December 2023, no 61

When an excerpt from Oliver Twist formed part of a recent television programme the Lime Grove caption-writers described the room in which the action took place as 'Bill Syke's'. slips of this kind in Sir George Barn's department could soon antagonize Dicken's admirers.

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