Framed Print of Frederick F. Barnard’s “Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim”
Although absent from the original 1843 edition by Chapman and Hall, this particular scene has inspired artistic interpretations by Sol Eytinge, Jr. in 1869, Fred Barnard in 1878 and 1885, and Harold Copping in 1924, with Copping's rendition being the most widely disseminated. However, it is Barnard's 1885 portrayal that precisely captures the moment described in Dickens's text. The other illustrations hint at an earlier, unmentioned moment when father and son traverse the snowy streets of Camde