Mr. Micawber / 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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Step back in time with Mr. Micawber / Kyd., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mr. Micawber / Kyd.
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Wilkins Micawber, the cheerful, perpetually broke debtor from Dickens's *David Copperfield*, is the figure here, and his optimism is the point of the portrait. Dickens serialized the novel in 1849 and 1850, and Micawber's habit of waiting for "something to turn up" made him one of the author's most quoted comic creations. This color lithograph comes from a set of Dickens character studies drawn by the illustrator who signed himself Kyd and issued in London by Raphael Tuck & Sons around 1899. The set shows how late-Victorian readers pictured 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. David Copperfield. Micawber, Wilkins (Fictitious character)--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,160 × 1,466 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216180 |
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