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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 cravat.
Charles Dickens would have been twenty-six that year, but the sketch could have been made previously.