Robert William Buss

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Robert William Buss
1804-1875
Studies of Characters in Pickwick
Pen and brown ink on paper.
5 1/8 x 4 inches (130 x 101 mm)
2005.165:10
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One of a set of 10 preparatory drawings for illustrations to Charles Dickens's "Pickwick Papers", including several unused designs.

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Inscribed above center of each row, "Pickwick"; "Tupman"; "Winkle"; "Snodgrass", repspectively; illegible inscription lower right corner. Numbered in graphite, "76" at upper right corner.

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Pickwick papers.

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