Second series: Sketches by Boz ; Seven dials – Historic Reproduction
![Second series: Sketches by Boz ; Seven dials, 1836 [publication date] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b3/b36066d061b4-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic print captures Second series: Sketches by Boz ; Seven dials in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Second series: Sketches by Boz ; Seven dials
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This sheet is a title page for Charles Dickens's "Seven Dials" sketch, named for the London district where seven streets meet. It was a crowded, poor quarter of the city that Dickens knew well from his reporting. George Cruikshank, whose signature appears on both illustrations, etched the designs and added watercolor by hand for the 1836 second series of *Sketches by Boz*, published by John Macrone. The catalog also lists balloons and quarreling women among the subjects, which fits the lively street life Dickens wrote about in these early sketches.
| Created / published | 1836 [publication date] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 prints (1 sheet) : etching with watercolor on off-white wove paper ; 19.7 x 25.1 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Book illustrations British 1830-1840.Prints British Color 1830-1840.Title pages British 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Imp. Left-hand illustration: London / John Macrone. St. James's Square / 1836. Imp. right-hand illustration: London, John Macrone, 1836. No copyright information found with item. Signed in plate, lower center, left-hand illustration: George Cruikshank. Signed in plate, lower center, right-hand illustration: George Cruikshank. Titles inscribed in plates below images. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1977; (DLC/PP-1977:215.631) Published as illustrations for: Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. The Second Series / by Charles Dickens. London: John Macrone, 1837. |
| Subjects | Balloons (Aircraft)--1830-1840. Quarreling--1830-1840. Women--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,170 × 2,124 px · prints to 4 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221005 |
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