Quilp Vents his Spite on the Figure Head. Sampson Brass had never seen anything in the smallest degree resembling this substantial phantom. The dwarf threw down the newspaper, and seizing a rusty iron bar, dealt the figure such a stroke on the nose that it rocked again. Is it like Kit, is it his picture, his image, his very self? he cried . Illustration by Harry Furniss for the Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop, from The Testimonial Edition, published 1910.