Mr. Weller Senior / Kyd. – Antique Print
(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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Mr. Weller Senior / Kyd.
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Mr. Weller Senior, the elderly coachman and father of Sam Weller, is a comic figure from Dickens's *Pickwick Papers*, serialized in 1836 and 1837, and this print shows him as the character the novel made famous. Kyd, the pseudonym of illustrator Joseph Clayton Clarke, drew him for *The Characters of Charles Dickens*, a series of color sketches that Raphael Tuck & Sons reproduced as lithographs in London around 1899. The series reflects the late Victorian appetite for Dickens, whose comic types were then widely reproduced as popular art. Note how the artist plays up Weller's rough, sociable character and his folksy sayings, which Dickens made a trademark of the book.
| 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. Pickwick papers. Weller, Sam, Sr. (Fictitious character)--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,166 × 1,473 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216178 |
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