William Frith Powell's Portrait of "Charles Dickens" (1859) (original) (raw)

Charles Dickens in His Study at Gadshill

William Powell Frith

Oil on canvas

1859

Framed height: 98cm x width: 84cm x depth: 10.5cm

© Victoria and Albert Museum, London [Click on the image to enlarge it.]

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• Monochrome version from Charles Dickens: An Exhibition....
• William Frith Powell, 1818-1909: A Life in Art
• Dickens's Study at Gadshill
• The Chalet in the Shrubbery at Gadshill
• Dickens's Writing Desk at the Chalet
• Frederick G. Kitton's The Empty Chair: Gad's Hill, Ninth of June 1870
• W. H. Boucher's The Empty Chair (22 June 1870)
• Charles Dickens among his Characters in Judy (22 June 1870)
• Charles Dickens's Legacy to England in Fun (25 June 1870)