Record ID:
307949
Accession number:
MA 7793
Published:
[1867]
Credit:
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2011.
Description:
1 photographic print : b&w ; 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (163 x 108 mm)
Notes:
Dickens probably posed for this Imperial-size photograph by Jeremiah Gurney & Son on December 9 or 10, 1867, during his last reading tour of the United States. The precise number of poses is undetermined but most of the poses were published in cabinet or carte-de-visite size.
Dickens's name and the photographer's imprint on the original mount and on the verso.
Summary:
Full-length portrait of English novelist Charles Dickens, resting on a book on a Davenport desk.
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