Dickens (Charles).- Catalogue of the Beautiful Collection of Modern Pictures, Water-Colour Drawings, and Objects of Art, of Charles Dickens deceased, 12pp., first edition, sale catalogue, contemporary ink signature of Alexander Walker at foot of title with note in pencil "I attended the sale" and prices in manuscript (ink over pencil), one leaf chipped at fore-edge, newspaper cuttings concerning Dickens's will and sale report pasted to front free endpapers, loose in old brown wrappers, upper wrapper inscribed "Dickens' sale catalogue Priced July 9th 1870" in ink at head, spine worn, covers detached, edges chipped, 8vo, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1870. ⁂ The auction of Dickens's pictures was held a month after his death and was well-attended, with prices greatly exceeding expectations. The highest prices were for W.P.Frith's Dolly Varden (1000 guineas) which was commissioned by Dickens from the artist, Clarkson Stanfield's The Eddystone Lighthouse (990 gns) which was painted as scenery for the amateur production of Wilkie Collins's The Lighthouse in 1855, and Daniel Maclise's portrait of Dickens (660gns) presented to him by his publishers on the completion of Nicholas Nickleby in 1839. The stuffed raven which was the model for Grip in Barnaby Rudge fetched 120gns.
Dickens (Charles).- Catalogue of the Beautiful Collection of Modern Pictures, Water-Colour Drawings, and Objects of Art, of Charles Dickens deceased, 12pp., first edition, sale catalogue, contemporary ink signature of Alexander Walker at foot of title with note in pencil "I attended the sale" and prices in manuscript (ink over pencil), one leaf chipped at fore-edge, newspaper cuttings concerning Dickens's will and sale report pasted to front free endpapers, loose in old brown wrappers, upper wrapper inscribed "Dickens' sale catalogue Priced July 9th 1870" in ink at head, spine worn, covers detached, edges chipped, 8vo, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1870. ⁂ The auction of Dickens's pictures was held a month after his death and was well-attended, with prices greatly exceeding expectations. The highest prices were for W.P.Frith's Dolly Varden (1000 guineas) which was commissioned by Dickens from the artist, Clarkson Stanfield's The Eddystone Lighthouse (990 gns) which was painted as scenery for the amateur production of Wilkie Collins's The Lighthouse in 1855, and Daniel Maclise's portrait of Dickens (660gns) presented to him by his publishers on the completion of Nicholas Nickleby in 1839. The stuffed raven which was the model for Grip in Barnaby Rudge fetched 120gns.
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