Horatio Sparkins from 'Sketches by Boz'

Category

Library Item

Item no

24867

Title

Horatio Sparkins from 'Sketches by Boz' (caption)

Description

The caption for the illustration of Horatio Sparkins is decorated with a black and white picture of a woman in a long dress and bonnet holding up the bottom of her skirts dancing.

Artist / maker

Fraser, Claud Lovat

Date

1924

Size

10.0 x 9.0 cm

Type

Publisher's print

Location

Art and Design Library

Sketches by Boz was Charles Dickens' first book and was a compilation of new stories, and sketches and tales which had been previously published in journals between 1833 and 1836.

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