H1817: "Mr. Charles Dickens as 'Captain Bobadil.'" A drawing in pen and brown ink on pale blue paper 24 cm. x 16 cm.

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Title: H1817: "Mr. Charles Dickens as 'Captain Bobadil.'" A drawing in pen and brown ink on pale blue paper 24 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: before 1845 November 22
Description: "Mr. Charles Dickens as 'Captain Bobadil.'" A drawing in pen and brown ink on pale blue paper 24 cm. x 16 cm. This drawing and the following two drawings were executed by Meadows for a review in The London Illustrated News of Every Man in His Humour as staged by Dickens's amateur theatrical group. The review, published on page 329 in the 22 November 1845 issue of the paper, was illustrated with wood-engraved copies of Meadows's drawings. Cuttings from The London Illustrated News accompany the drawings.
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 77, folder 874

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