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Robert William Buss
1804-1875
The Fat Boy Awake on This Occasion Only (first sketch - another version)
Graphite with some pen and brown ink on paper.
6 1/16 x 4 9/16 inches (154 x 117 mm) (sight measurements)
2005.165:6
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One of a set of 10 preparatory drawings for illustrations to Charles Dickens's "Pickwick Papers", including several unused designs.
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Inscribed below design area: "Mr. Tupmone & Miss Wardle, & fat boy"; numbered, "64" in upper right corner.
Associated names:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Pickwick papers.
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