Captain Cuttle from 'Dombey and Son'

Category

Library Item

Item no

24877

Title

Captain Cuttle from 'Dombey and Son' (caption)

Description

The caption page for illustration of Captain Cuttle is decorated with a black and white picture of a goat.

Artist / maker

Fraser, Claud Lovat

Date

1924

Size

10.0 x 8.5 cm

Type

Publisher's print

Location

Art and Design Library

Dombey and Son was started when Dickens was living in Switzerland and Paris. It is his seventh novel, published between 1846 and 1848.
Captain Cuttle, a seafaring man is described by Dickens as "a gentleman in a wide suit of blue, with a hook instead of a hand attached to his right wrist; very bushy black eyebrows; and a thick stick in his left hand, covered all over (like his nose) with knobs. He wore a loose black silk handkerchief round his neck, and such a very large coarse shirt collar, that it looked like a small sail." Charles Lovat Fraser's illustration closely resembles Dickens' words.

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