The New York Public Library, Berg Collection of
English and American Literature
Tiny Tim and Little Bob Cratchit.
This wood engraving by A.V.S. Anthony, after the drawing by Sol Eytinge, Jr., was first published as one of the special portfolio of large "Christmas Pictures" featured in the December 31, 1870, issue of Every Saturday. Dickens was a creator haunted by his creations. He told James T. Fields, his American publisher,
that "at midnight and in the morning, on the sea and on the land, Tiny Tim and Little Bob Cratchit
were ever tugging at his coat-sleeve, as if impatient for him to get back to his desk and continue
the story of their lives."