Museum Object Number2012.0013.006 |
Print (Engraving)
Oliver Twist./ The attempted burglary.
Prints and Maps
Gift of Wilford P. Cole
Thomas Phillibrown (Engraver)
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (Designer)
W. A. Townsend & Co. (Publisher)
Houghton, Osgood & Co. (Publisher)
Felix Darley illustrated works by Dickens, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Longfellow, James Fenimore Cooper, and many others (ULAN).
1822c.1859
1888c.1861
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1879-1879
1. Inscription; Lower right, beneath image; T. Phillibrown Sc.
2. Inscription; Lower left, beneath image; F.O.C. Darley Fecit.
3. Inscription; Lower center; NEW YORK, W.A. TOWNSEND & C.\o
Literary scene; Book illustration; Charles Dickens
Ink; Paper (wove)
Engraved, Steel Engraved
7.1 (H) , 4.6 (W) , 4.1 (Image H) , 3.3 (Image W)
18 (H) , 11.8 (W) , 4.1 (Image H) , 3.3 (Image W)
H and W at left and bottom. Trimmed within platemark.
Houghton, Osgood & Co.
1879
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
none
Probably from the Globe Edition of Charles Dickens' works, Boston: Houghton, Osgood, & Co., 1879. (12mo.), republished from the original 1861 engraving published in: Dickens, Charles, Works of Charles Dickens. 4 vols., household edition. New York: W.A. Townsend & Co., 1861-1866.
Text available soon.
[Book] Finlay, Nancy. 1999 Inventing the American Past: The Art of F.O.C. Darley.
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