Wilkes Riots
Wilkes Riots
Etching on copper. Image Dim:cm 11 x 9.2; Sheet Dim: cm 22 x 13.5. Passepartout Dim: cm 25 x 17.5
Title at the center. Signed on plate under the image: "PHIZ".
From the series of 17 etchings on copper illustrating Charles Dickens's novels , published in London by "Thomas Tegg Cheapside" in XIX century.
Wilkes Riots
Etching on copper. Image Dim:cm 11 x 9.2; Sheet Dim: cm 22 x 13.5. Passepartout Dim: cm 25 x 17.5
Title at the center. Signed on plate under the image: "PHIZ".
From the series of 17 etchings on copper illustrating Charles Dickens's novels , published in London by "Thomas Tegg Cheapside" in XIX century.
Browne Hablot Knight , alias Phiz , (Kensinghton 1815 - Brighton 1892)
English painter, watercolorist and engraver. He illustrated books by Charles Dickens and other famous writers. Phiz was above all a friend and a collaborator of the famous writer. His remarkable work of illlustrator brought him a medal by the Arts Society in 1832, and by the Royal Academy in 1878.
Ref: Bénézit I, 342.
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