Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim Jessie Wilcox Smith

Jessie Willcox Smith created an illustration titled "Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim," which is an oil on paper laid down to board, measuring 27.5 by 19.25 inches (69.9 x 48.9 cm). This artwork was created for the book The Children of Dickens by Samuel McChord Crothers, originally published in 1925. The illustration depicts Bob Cratchit, the clerk in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and his youngest son, Timothy Cratchit, affectionately known as Tiny Tim, who walks with a crutch due to a chronic illness. Tiny Tim symbolizes the impoverished yet resilient lower class during the Victorian era, serving as an antithesis to the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge.