H1794: "Can't You See a Hint?" A drawing in black chalk and white body-color, touched with brush and black ink, on paper 25 cm. x 16 cm.

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Description

Title: H1794: "Can't You See a Hint?" A drawing in black chalk and white body-color, touched with brush and black ink, on paper 25 cm. x 16 cm.
Creator: From the Collection: Gimbel, Richard
Contributor: From the Collection: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
From the Collection: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Published / Created: undated
Description: "Can't You See a Hint?" A drawing in black chalk and white body-color, touched with brush and black ink, on paper 25 cm. x 16 cm. There is on the back of this sheet what appears to be a black-chalk sketch of the same scene from a wider angle. Fildes's sons write that this drawing for The Mystery of Edwin Drood is "what probably would be a complete sketch for the thirteenth illustration, unentitled due to the death of Charles Dickens. It depicts apparently Rosa Bud holding the hand of a young man, perhaps Neville, but could be Tartar." Fildes did give the drawing a title, but there is a question whether or not the final word is "hint."
Provenance: Gift of Richard Gimbel, circa 1920-1969.
Language: English
French
Italian

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

GEN MSS 1998

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Container / Volume

Box 95, folder 968

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