Charles Dickens Gallery

'Ipswich: Mr Pickwick outsideThe Ancient House', LNER poster, 1928

Poster produced for the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) to promote rail travel to the Suffolk county town of Ipswich, which appeared as a location in Charles Dickens' (1812-1870) novel 'The Pickwick Papers' (1836). The character, Mr Pickwick, is shown processing through the streets in a sedan chair, while the town's famous 'Ancient House' (built 1567) is seen in the background. Artwork by Fred Taylor, who was commissioned in 1930 to design four ceiling paintings for the Underwriting Room at Lloyd's and murals for Reed's Lacquer Room. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and other London galleries and worked for LNER, London Transport and several shipping companies

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Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, a pipe and began to smoke

Vintage engraving of a scene from Charles Dickens novel Barnaby Rudge. Then seating himself, under a spreading honeysuckle, and stretching his legs across the threshold so that no person could pass in or out without his knowledge he took from his pocket a pipe, flint, steel and tinder-box, and began to smoke. Illustrated by Fred Barnard

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Golden Buildings, London, from Dickens' David Copperfield (illustration)

"Scanned directly from 'Old and New London - Its History, its people and its places', published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. 1878. This illustration depicts Golden Buildings (the passage leading to the Fox under the Hill), Strand West which featured in David Copperfield.The Fox under the Hill Tavern was probably the scene of the wedding-breakfast after the marriage of Wemmick and Miss Skiffins. The area around the Adelphi, Strand was described by Dickens as follows: 'I was fond of wandering about the Adelphi, because it was a mysterious place with those dark arches. I see myself emerging one evening from some of those arches in a little public -house close to the river, with an open space before it, where some coal-heavers were dancing; to look at them I sat down on a bench.'"

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