H1070: Fildes, S[amuel] Luke. "The Empty Chair, Gad's Hill--Ninth of June 1870"

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Title: H1070: Fildes, S[amuel] Luke. "The Empty Chair, Gad's Hill--Ninth of June 1870"
Creator: From the Collection: Gimbel, Richard
Contributor: From the Collection: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
From the Collection: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Published / Created: 1870
Description: Fildes, S[amuel] Luke. "The Empty Chair, Gad's Hill--Ninth of June 1870." This large wood-engraving, which is printed on a sheet of plate paper 44 cm. x 62 cm., depicts Dickens's study at Gad's Hill on the day of his death. It is hand colored. Richard Gimbel owned Fildes's original sketch of the scene; see entry H1797. -- A second copy: Another impression. The typefae in the title is altered. This copy is not colored.
Provenance: Gift of Richard Gimbel, circa 1920-1969.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially 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.