Captain Cuttle from 'Dombey and Son'

Category

Library Item

Item no

24878

Title

Captain Cuttle from 'Dombey and Son'

Description

A man is wearing a blue jacket, black hat and white trousers. A red hankerchief trails out of his jacket pocket. The man has a hook in place of his left hand.

Artist / maker

Fraser, Claud Lovat

Date

1924

Size

15.0 x 12.0 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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Clothing and dress > Accessories > Hats

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People > Adults > Men

Sport and leisure > Activities > Reading and books

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