Early Coaches
Drawing
1837-39 (made)
1837-39 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Pencil and sepia wash drawing, inscribed with title, 'Early Coaches', and partly erased, 'I am ready Mr Boz but more time I beg.'
Object details
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| Title | Early Coaches (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil, sepia wash, drawing |
| Brief description | 'Early Coaches'. One of four illustrations drawn by George Cruikshank for Chapman and Hall's edition of 'Sketches by Boz' by Charles Dickens. Pencil and sepia wash, 1837-39. |
| Physical description | Pencil and sepia wash drawing, inscribed with title, 'Early Coaches', and partly erased, 'I am ready Mr Boz but more time I beg.' |
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| Object history | The young man paying his booking fee is a portrait of Dickens; in the etching his pseudonym Boz is faintly traced on the trunk on the counter. The erased inscription is an example of one of Cruikshank's not infrequent complaints that the busy author, whose commitments were growing daily, did not send him the manuscript on time. |
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| Literary reference | 'Sketches by Boz' by Charles Dickens, first published in 1836. |
| Bibliographic reference | Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Charles Dickens: An exhibition to celebrate the centenary of his death London: HMSO, 1970. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 9920 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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