Charles Dickens

Inscriptionback to top

Signed (lower left): Hy. F.
Inscribed (top left): Charles Dickens exhausted/after his Death of Nancy Reading and (top right): Chap XVII

Provenanceback to top

Purchased from the artist's sons, through Theodore Cluse, 1948.

Exhibitionsback to top

Charles Dickens, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1970 (M35).

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H. Furniss, Some Victorian Men (1924), facing p 194, with the title, 'Charles Dickens Exhausted'.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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