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Pictures from Italy is a travelogue by Charles Dickens, written in 1846. The book reveals the concerns of its author as he presents, according to Kate Flint, the country "like a chaotic magic-lantern show, fascinated both by the spectacle it offers, and by himself as spectator".
One entitled Civettina (1880) is an Italian genre painting depicting a half-length portrait of a girl in profile, with her back to the viewer as in her own portrait by Millais. [14] Perugini exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1874, he married the youngest daughter of novelist Charles Dickens, who as Kate Perugini [2] pursued her own artistic career, sometimes collaborating with her husband. Perugini's 1878 picture A Girl Reading, perhaps his best-known single work, is in the collection of the Manchester Art Gallery. It was bequeathed by James Thomas Blair in 1917.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
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 .
Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by Boz) is a collection of short pieces the English author Charles Dickens originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836.
'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 ...
The Life of Our Lord (1846–1849, pub. 1934) A Child's History of England (1853) The Uncommercial Traveller (1860–1869) Speeches, Letters and Sayings (1870) Miscellaneous Papers (1912) Contributions to All The Year Round (1912) Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins (1851–1870, pub. 1892) (selected by Georgina Hogarth)