Oliver Twist: 14/24, Oliver waited on by the Bow Street runners

'Oliver had been dozing; but looked worse, and was more feverish than he had appeared yet. Being assisted by the doctor he managed to sit up in bed for a minute or so; and looked at the strangers without at all understanding what was going forward- in fact without seeming to recollect where he was or what had been passing. ‘This’, said Mr Losberne, speaking softly, but with great vehemence, notwithstanding, ‘this is the lad, who, being accidentally wounded by a spring-gun in some boyish trespass on Mr What-d’ye-call-him’s grounds, at the back here, comes to the house for assistance this morning and is immediately laid hold of and maltreated by that ingenious gentleman with the candle in his hand, who has placed his life in considerable danger, as I can professionally certify.
Messrs Blathers and Duff (police officers) looked at Mr Giles as he was thus recommended to their notice. The bewildered butler gazed from them towards Oliver and from Oliver towards Mr Losberne with a most ludicrous mixture of fear ad perplexity.’

George Cruikshank supplied twenty-four engravings for the first edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens between February 1837 and April 1839. It was Dickens’s second novel published by Richard Bentley. After Dickens's death in 1870, Cruikshank made the claim that it was he who had originated Oliver Twist, a claim which Dickens's biographer and confidant, John Forster, refuted by referring to Dickens's letters. The plates for that novel certainly reflect Cruikshank's extensive knowledge of the London underworld.