Voices are AI-generated.
The pictures
The first Christmas Carol had four pictures, etched by John Leech and coloured by hand.
The four plates you meet when you hold the robe are Leech’s own, from the first edition of 1843.
The pictures are John Leech's, from the first edition of A Christmas Carol (1843), and the title page is the first edition's. The flight beyond London shows engravings after J. M. W. Turner (1824) and by Gustave Doré (1872). All are in the public domain. The words are Charles Dickens's, from Project Gutenberg.