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Caricature of Charles Dickens (1870) / a sketch from memory by Spy."" – Antique Print

Caricature of Charles Dickens (1870) / a sketch from memory by Spy."", [1900] — historic print
Caricature of Charles Dickens (1870) / a sketch from memory by Spy."", [1900]. Historic print from the Books & Writers collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Caricature of Charles Dickens (1870) / a sketch from memory by Spy."", preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Drawn from memory rather than from a live sitting, this caricature of Charles Dickens dates to 1870, the year the novelist died. The sketch is the work of "Spy," the pen name of Leslie Ward, whose Vanity Fair caricatures made him one of the best-known portrait satirists of the Victorian era. This 1900 photomechanical print reproduces the drawing in Seymour Eaton's *Charles Dickens Rare Print Collection*, published in Philadelphia by R.G. Kennedy & Co., and it shows how Dickens's likeness was circulated to readers long after the original was made.

Created / published[1900]
Medium1 photomechanical print.
GenreCaricatures 1870 Reproductions 1900.Watercolors 1870 Reproductions 1900.Photomechanical prints 1900.
NotesReproduction of a watercolor(?) caricature of Charles Dickens. Illus. in: Charles Dickens rare print collection / Seymour Eaton. Philadelphia, Pa. : R.G. Kennedy & Co., 1900, part II. No. 1.
SubjectsDickens, Charles,--1812-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,159 × 1,481 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218105

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