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Folder Cover For Part I.Charles Dickens Rare Print Collection (1900)

The folders around each “part” of ten plates are dark brown and approx. ten inches (24 or 25cm) tall; in one corner they have a paper label pasted dowm on the front, and this is one such label. CHARLE [...]

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Added: 2015-10-08

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I.-1. John Dickens.Charles Dickens Rare Print Collection (1900)

John Dickens (1785 – 1851) was the father of Charles Dickens.

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Added: 2015-10-05

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I.-2. Charles Dickens.Charles Dickens Rare Print Collection (1900)

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Added: 2015-10-07

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I.-3. Charles Dickens in 1851, With SignatureCharles Dickens Rare Print Collection (1900)

From a daguerreotype taken in 1851.

This reproduction of a photograph of Charles Dickens is accompanied by his signature, “Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens”.

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Added: 2016-09-08

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John Dickens (Father of Charles)Charles Dickens Rare Print Collection (1900)

JA portrait of John Dickens, father of Charles Dickens; engraved by Edwin Roffe after a pencil drawing.

Keywords: dickens, men, people, portraits, sketches, jacket, balding, greyscale

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Added: 2018-06-01

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Crayon Sketch of Charles Dickens, 1838Charles Dickens Rare Print Collection (1900)

Boz from a painting by Samuel Lawrence This drawing in crayon was exhibited by the artist Samuel Lawrence (also written Laurence) in 1838; it shows him with a side parting in his hair and wearing a cr [...]

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Added: 2021-04-06

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Mr. Charles Dickens’s Last Reading.Illustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

The woodcut appeared in the Supplement, March 19, 1870 to the Illustrated London News. An accompaanying story noted that Mr. Charles Dickens had been giving public readings, but would no longer do so [...]

Keywords: people, portraits, books, beards, authors, dickens, greyscale

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Added: 2007-03-18

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Festival at the East London Hospital For Children on New Year’s EveIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

FESTIVAL AT THE EAST LONDON HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN. From among the entertainments given on a New-Year’s Eve at the different hospitls and charitable institutions in London, we have selected for illustr [...]

Keywords: christmas, trees, new year, people, children, hospitals, health, interiors, dickens, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

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Added: 2007-12-15

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Charles Dickens in 1830.The Leisure Hour (1904)

The original painting by Mrs. Janet Barrow is in storage at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It is painted on ivory. Mrs. Barrow is said there to have worked between 1817 and 1830, and was Di [...]

Keywords: people, portraits, dickens, greyscale

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Added: 2012-12-24

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The Birthplace of Charles DickensThe Leisure Hour (1904)

1 Mile End Terrace, Portsea (now [i.e. 1904] 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth) (By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) The magazine (Leisure Hour, 1904) contains several illustrations from The Dicke [...]

Keywords: birthplaces, houses, buildings, windows, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Portsmouth; Hampshire; England

Added: 2006-10-08

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Fort Pitt, ChathamThe Leisure Hour (1904)

The playground of Dickens in his childhood, and the scene of the duel (which never took place!) in Pickwick (By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) “The happiest days of Dickens’s childhood were sp [...]

Keywords: fields, people, fences, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Fort Pitt; Kent; England

Added: 2006-10-08

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Dickens at the Blacking WarehouseThe Leisure Hour (1904)

From a drawing by Fred Bernard. Reproduced in “The Dickens Country” by kind permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall Charles Dickens is here shown as a boy of between eight and twelve years of age, work [...]

Keywords: people, misery, dickens, work, labour, sketches, drawings, tiredness, fatigue, boys, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2006-10-08

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Charles Dickens in 1868The Leisure Hour (1904)

From a photograph by Mason. Reproduced in “The Dickens Country” by kind permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall “On the page opposite to that which contains this touching picture we have placed a rmark [...]

Keywords: portraits, writers, people, beards, dickens, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-08

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Gad’s Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK)The Leisure Hour (1904)

Gad’s Hill Place, Near Rochester [Kent]; The home of Charles Dickens from 1857 to 1870. The prinetd photograph also has the captions, (By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) and, Photochrom Co., Lt [...]

Keywords: houses, buildings, trees, creepers, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Gads Hill Place; Higham-by-Rochester; Kent; England

Added: 2014-08-07

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Chester Cathedral Tower from St. John’s StreetThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

A narrow cobbled street with black-and-white half-timbered buildings, an overhanging turret with a percariously-mounted lamp, a heavily-laden cart pulled by two horses, and in the background, with bir [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, streets, cars, buildings, cities, gothic architecture, medieval architecture, xmas, christmas, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2010-08-12

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Old Curiosity Shop, LondonFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

Charles Dickens’ story The Old Curiosity Shop was published in 1840; the photograph here dates from 1893 or so and shoes the London shop of H. Poole, Waste Paper Dealer; on the side of the building, u [...]

Keywords: dickens, london, shops, streets, street scenes, cobbles, signs, windows, fog, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2020-09-19

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Dudley Street – Seven DialsLondon (1872)

Children play in this crowded street; they are dressed in rags and mostly barefoot. The peculiar character of these streets, and the close resemblance each one bears to its neighbour, by no means tend [...]

Keywords: poverty, people, streets, children, bare feet, houses, misery, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2010-07-31

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Charles Dickens: Letter Written the Day before His DeathUniversal Classic Manuscripts Vol II (1901)

Charles Dickens. Letter, written on the day before his death, to Charles Kent, appointing to meet him on the morrow; Gad’s Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, 8 June, 1870. holograph. [Add. MS. [...]

Keywords: letters, handwriting, fac similes, dickens, colour

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Added: 2017-09-27

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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s HouseWarwick and Leamington (1920)

“The way to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘nest of a place’ is up the shady Holly Walk, which leads immediately out of the Royal Parade, [...] by the imposing Renaissance Town Hall and the attractive life-siz [...]

Keywords: colour, houses, trees, gardens, dickens

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-05-01

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Charles DickensIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

This full-page illustration accompanied an obituary of Charles Dickens in the edition of the “Illustrated London news” for the 18th June, 1870; Dickens’ death had been reported in the newspaper the pr [...]

Keywords: portraits, dickens, people, beards, writers, greyscale

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Added: 2013-05-25

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