Shooting a Ghost

Shooting a Ghost

Etching on copper.  Image Dim:cm 11 x 9.2; Sheet Dim: cm 22 x 13.5. Passepartout Dim: cm 29 x 21

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.