Drawing for an illustration to the Household edition of Charles Dickens's The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club (London : Chapman & Hall, 1874), p. 281.
Forms part of an album of 59 graphite and chalk drawings by H.K. Browne; including 22 drawings for illustrations executed for the Household edition of Pickwick papers, as well as sketches, studies, and designs for the periodical Judy.
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Mounted on album leaf annotated in pencil: "Pickwick" and "p. 281"; stamped "99" in reverse in ink at upper right.
Drawing shows the interior of a bedroom where Mr. Winkle, standing at left in his night shirt and night cap, angrily confronts a jaunty Sam Weller (here shown wearing a tophat), who is seated in a chair at right.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.