"Bye and bye I came upon a polenta-shop in the clouds, here an old Frenchman with an umbrella like a faded tropical leaf (it had not rained in Naples for six weeks) was staring at nothing at all, with a snuff-box in his hand" — Book 7, chap. iii. . The Household Edition of Forster's Life of Charles Dickens."

Bye and bye I came upon a polenta-shop in the clouds

Fred Barnard

1870s

Woodblock Engraving by the Dalziels

14 x 10.9 cm

Full caption: "Bye and bye I came upon a polenta-shop in the clouds, where an old Frenchman with an umbrella like a faded tropical leaf (it had not rained in Naples for six weeks) was staring at nothing at all, with a snuff-box in his hand."

Book 7, chap. iii. Forster's Life of Charles Dickens in the Household Edition.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham

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References

Barnard, Fred, et al. Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens; being eight hundred and sixty-six drawings by Fred Barnard, Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), J. Mahoney [and others] printed from the original woodblocks engraved for "The Household edition". London: Chapman & Hall, 1908. P. 576.

The copy of the book from which these pictures were scanned is in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Last modified 15 September 2009