David Copperfield as a boy enters the study of Dr Strong who is absorbed in lexicographic work; his young wife Annie is sitting on a stool at his feet. Etching by Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne), 1849.

Dr Strong is headmaster of a school attended by David Copperfield in Canterbury. A bookcase covers the back wall; on top of it are bones of large animals and a fossil. On a chest next to the fireplace are a large tooth, an urn, and a "Brick of Babylon" (so inscribed)