Object Number 2012.0013.023

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

Our Mutual Friend./ Riderhood checkmated./ Page 219.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Wilford P. Cole

Creator (Role)

Vistus Balch (Etcher)
1799-1884

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).

Hurd and Houghton Publishers (Publisher)
1864
In 1864, Henry Houghton (born 1832) formed a partnership with Melancthon Hurd, a member of a New York publishing firm. Hurd & Houghton established itself quickly and new business began trickling into the Riverside Press from New York. Later became Houghton Mifflin Company (www.hmco.com).

Place of Origin

New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1870-1880

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower right, beneath image; V. Balch Sc.
2. Inscription; Lower left, beneath image; F.O.C. Darley fecit
3. Inscription; Lower center; NEW YORK, HURD & HOUGHTON

Subjects

Literary scene; Book illustration; Charles Dickens

Materials

Ink; Paper; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Engraved, Steel Engraved, Chine collé

Dimensions (inches)

13.5 (H) , 10.4 (W) , 3.5 (Image H) , 3.2 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

34.2 (H) , 26.5 (W) , 3.5 (Image H) , 3.2 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H and W at left and bottom. Plate H: 8.9 in. (22.6 cm). Plate W: 6.1 in. (15.4 cm).

Publisher Summary

Hurd and Houghton Publishers

Publication Date

1879

Place of Publication

New York, New York, United States, North America

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

Perhaps from: Dickens, Charles, Works of Charles Dickens. 4 vols., household edition. New York: W.A. Townsend & Co., 1861-1866.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Finlay, Nancy. 1999 Inventing the American Past: The Art of F.O.C. Darley.
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