Record ID:
304569
Accession number:
MA 7668
Published:
[1867]
Credit:
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2011.
Description:
1 photographic print : b&w ; 17 1/2 x 15 in. (445 x 380 mm)
Notes:
The lower portion of the photograph is signed and inscribed "New York / Wednesday Fifteenth April, 1868."
Dickens probably posed for this photograph by Jeremiah Gurney & Son on December 9 or December 10, 1867. The precise number of poses is undetermined but most of the poses were published in cabinet or carte-de-visite size. This albumen print portrait is exceptionally large and rare.
Summary:
Head and shoulders profile portrait of English novelist Charles Dickens.
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