Captain Doubledick from 'Christmas Stories'

Category

Library Item

Item no

24897

Title

Captain Doubledick from 'Christmas Stories' (caption)

Description

The caption page for the illustration of Captain Doubledick is decorated with a picture of a military officer on his horse led by a row of marching soldiers.

Artist / maker

Fraser, Claud Lovat

Date

1924

Size

13.0 x 10.0 cm

Type

Publisher's print

Location

Art and Design Library

Dickens' 'Christmas Stories' were collaborative projects which were published each year as extra material to 'Household Words', Dickens' magazine. The 'Christmas Stories' including 'A Christmas Carol', are considered by some critics inferior to his great novels, offering readers trifling and fanciful tales rather than serious themes.

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