H1626: ["Mr. Winkle's Situation When the Door Blew To"]. A drawing done with pen and brush in grey ink over pencil, heightened with white, on paper 22 cm. x 16.5 cm., mounted

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Title: H1626: ["Mr. Winkle's Situation When the Door Blew To"]. A drawing done with pen and brush in grey ink over pencil, heightened with white, on paper 22 cm. x 16.5 cm., mounted
Creator: From the Collection: Gimbel, Richard
Contributor: From the Collection: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
From the Collection: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Published / Created: undated
Description: ["Mr. Winkle's Situation When the Door Blew To"]. A drawing done with pen and brush in grey ink over pencil, heightened with white, on paper 22 cm. x 16.5 cm., mounted. At the head of this drawing Dickens writes in ink: "Winkle should be holding the candlestick above his head I think. It looks more comical, the light having gone out." Beneath the scene he writes in ink: "A fat chairman so short as our friend here, never drew breath in Bath. I would leave him where he is, decidedly. Is the lady full dressed? She ought to be. CD." The etching of this scene was first published in part No. XIII of The Pickwick Papers. Provenance: Stuart Samuel, Edward Lowell Dean, Lewis A. Hird.
Provenance: Gift of Richard Gimbel, circa 1920-1969.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English
French
Italian

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

GEN MSS 1998

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Container / Volume

Box 79, folder 886

Access: Public
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Citation: Manuscripts in the Richard Gimbel Collection of Charles Dickens. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.