(Barnaby Rudge./ "When she dropped the book she had been reading to him/ aloud, and fell upon his neck, he stopped in his busy take/ of folding a piece of crape about his hat.)
Prints and Maps
Robert Hinshelwood (Etcher)
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (Designer)
Sheldon and Company (Publisher)
New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1861-1866
Ink; Paper (wove)
Engraved, Steel Engraved, Chine collé
2012.0013.115
Object Number2012.0013.115 |
Print (Engraving)
(Barnaby Rudge./ "When she dropped the book she had been reading to him/ aloud, and fell upon his neck, he stopped in his busy take/ of folding a piece of crape about his hat.)
Prints and Maps
Gift of Wilford P. Cole
Robert Hinshelwood (Etcher)
1812-c.1875
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (Designer)
1822-1888
Felix Darley illustrated works by Dickens, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Longfellow, James Fenimore Cooper, and many others (ULAN).
Sheldon and Company (Publisher)
c.1860-c.1880
Up until at least 1858, Sheldon was still working as: Sheldon, Blakeman & Company, New York.
New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1861-1866
1. Inscription; Lower right, beneath image; R Hinshelwood sc
2. Inscription; Lower left, beneath image; F.O.C. Darley fecit.
Literary scene; Book illustration; Charles Dickens
Ink; Paper (wove)
Engraved, Steel Engraved, Chine collé
15.1 (H) , 11.6 (W) , 4 (Image H) , 3.4 (Image W)
38.3 (H) , 29.5 (W) , 4 (Image H) , 3.4 (Image W)
Plate H: 8.4 in. (21.4 cm). Plate W: 6.2 in. (15.8 cm).
Sheldon and Company
New York, New York, United States, North America
none
Perhaps from: 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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