Advertisements for Schweppes, c. 1910

Reproduction

DG V* Cartoons 6 and 7

These cartoons were used to sell Schweppes soft drinks. They feature Samuel Pickwick Esq., a wealthy gentleman and a character from a comic Dickens novel — The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Most of the action in the novel takes place in the 1820s in the inns of rural England. Sam Weller, with his cockney accent and working-class roots, becomes Pickwick’s valet and joins him on his travels.