DICKENS, Charles.

£375 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

"It is the hand of a brave Englishman". The original illustration, signed by the artist, for the scene in which Richard Doubledick meets, for the second time, the French Captain who had been leading the troops at Badajos that shot his friend Taunton. Charles Brock and his brother Henry used to collect period furniture and clothing so that their friends and relations could model for the artists in their Cambridge studio.

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