Note 8 — ROBERT SEYMOUR
Reading edition
The artist's son asserts that the last plate Seymour etched for "Pickwick" (viz., "The Dying Clown") was submitted to Dickens a fortnight (not forty-eight hours, as recorded by Forster) before his death. It seems that Seymour's final drawing was for a woodcut, executed for John Jackson, the engraver, to whom the artist delivered it on the evening of the fatal day, April 20, 1836.