Lock and Whitfield, London, Photographers. A photograph of Frederick Dickens, taken circa 1867. He is seated with his legs crossed, reading from a book that sits on a pedestal. This carte-de-visite bears the photographers’ imprint.
["In the Court"]. A drawing done with brush in black ink and white body-color over black chalk, on paper 16.5 cm. x 27 cm. The wood-engraving of this scene was first published as a plate in part No. I of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
To Albert Schloss. Autograph quotation, signed, of 22 January 1844, containing approximately 15 words. London. On this leaf, one of two from the visitors’ album of Schloss, Dickens writes: “And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us Every One!” These ...
"Scrooge's Third Visitor." A drawing in watercolor over pencil, on paper 15.5 cm. x 9.5 cm., mounted. The hand-colored etching of this scene was first published at page 78 of A Christmas Carol. Provenance: Stuart Samuel, William Randolph Hearst, Lewis...
"Hollo, Jim, Where Are You Going with Yours?' 'Hesplandae!-Where Be You?' 'Prospect Place!'" A drawing in pen and brown ink and watercolor over pencil, on paper 16 cm. x 11 cm. This humorous drawing and the following five drawings were probably execut...
Revisions in proof for The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Autograph manuscript on page proof of 106 leaves; on 16 pages; containing approximately 15 words, and scattered editorial marks, in the hand of Dickens. There are 209 pages of printed text in these le...
["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 t...
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...
