H1797: ["The Empty Chair. Gad's Hill-Ninth of June 1870"]. A drawing in black chalk and pencil, and brush and white body-color, on paper 33 cm. x 54 cm.

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Title: H1797: ["The Empty Chair. Gad's Hill-Ninth of June 1870"]. A drawing in black chalk and pencil, and brush and white body-color, on paper 33 cm. x 54 cm.
Creator: From the Collection: Gimbel, Richard
Contributor: From the Collection: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
From the Collection: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Published / Created: 1870 June
Description: ["The Empty Chair. Gad's Hill-Ninth of June 1870"]. A drawing in black chalk and pencil, and brush and white body-color, on paper 33 cm. x 54 cm. This drawing is perhaps the first sketch that Fildes made of Dickens's study at Gad's Hill for what was to become a famous and widely published picture; see entry H1070.
Provenance: Gift of Richard Gimbel, circa 1920-1969.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English
French
Italian

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

GEN MSS 1998

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Container / Volume

Box 131 (Broadside)

Access: Public
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Citation: Manuscripts in the Richard Gimbel Collection of Charles Dickens. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.