Mr. Bumble / Kyd. – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Mr. Bumble / Kyd.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mr. Bumble / Kyd.
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Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle in Charles Dickens's *Oliver Twist*, is the subject here, a pompous minor official who guards his small authority with great seriousness. Dickens first published the novel in serial form in the late 1830s, and Bumble became one of its most recognizable comic figures. This color lithograph was issued by the London firm Raphael Tuck & Sons around 1899, when it was producing many sets of Dickens character images. It was made after original watercolor sketches by the artist known as Kyd, and it reflects the late-Victorian taste for collecting portraits of Dickens's characters.
| Created / published | London : Raphael Tuck & Sons, c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The Characters of Charles Dickens pourtrayed in a series of original water colour sketches by Kyd"." |
| Subjects | Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870. Oliver Twist. Mr. Bumble (Fictitious character)--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,163 × 1,456 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216179 |
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