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The Battle of Life: A Love Story is an 1846 novella by Charles Dickens. [1] It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and is followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain .
The Battle of the Boyne is a 1778 historical painting by the Anglo-American artist Benjamin West.It portrays the Battle of the Boyne which took place in Ireland in 1690. West's depiction of William of Orange on his white horse became the iconic image of liberation from Catholic Ireland; the painting was widely copied and distributed throughout the nineteenth century.
The Battle of the Boyne, by Jan Wyck, c.1693.. As the son of a fairly successful artist, it is likely Wyck was painting and drawing from a young age. Enjoying the patronage of the Duke of Ormond Wyck was known as the best landscape painter in London by 1686.
Portrait of Charles Dickens is an 1839 portrait painting by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise depicting the English novelist Charles Dickens. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Dickens debut novel The Pickwick Papers had been a popular success, which he had followed up with Nicholas Nickelby .
Fully titled "A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas," Dickens' now-iconic tale was initially published on Dec. 19, 1843.
What: Charles Dickens’ original handwritten manuscript of "A Christmas Carol" from December 1843 Where: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave., New York
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the last of Dickens's five Christmas novellas, following A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845) and The Battle of Life (1846).
'Kyd' self-portrait as the Joker for a set of Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers playing cards (1931) Joseph Clayton Clark (1857— 8 August 1937), who worked under the pseudonym "Kyd", was a British artist best known for his illustrations of characters from the novels of Charles Dickens. The artwork was published in magazines or sold as ...