Illustration for Dickens' "Old Curiosity Shop": "Do I love thee, Nell", etc.
Illustration for Dickens' "Old Curiosity Shop": "Do I love thee, Nell", etc.
Illustration for Dickens' "Old Curiosity Shop": "Do I love thee, Nell", etc.
Illustration for Dickens' "Old Curiosity Shop": "Do I love thee, Nell", etc.

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Illustration for Dickens' "Old Curiosity Shop": "Do I love thee, Nell", etc.

V. Balch
after Felix Octavious Carr Darley, American, 1822–1888
x1944-35 a-b

Information

Title
Illustration for Dickens' "Old Curiosity Shop": "Do I love thee, Nell", etc.
Maker
V. Balch
after Felix Octavious Carr Darley
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
plate (a): 21.4 x 15.7 cm. (8 7/16 x 6 3/16 in.) sheet (a): 33.8 x 26.6 cm. (13 5/16 x 10 1/2 in.) sheet trimmed to plate (b): 13.1 x 19.4 cm. (5 3/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Mather Collection
Object Number
x1944-35 a-b
Inscription
Inscribed in plate, lower left: F.O.C. Darley Fecit Inscribed in plate, lower right: V. Balch Sc.
Culture
American
Type
oil paintings, engravings, prints
Subject
men, stores, children (people by age group), figures (representations)

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