Tracy Tupman, Rachel Wardle, and the Fat Boy (Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers)
Hablot Knight Browne, English, 1815 - 1882
mid-19th century
Oil on canvas, laid on wood
Overall: 18 1/2 × 14 1/4 in. (47 × 36.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Perc S. Brown, Class of 1941P, in memory of his wife Marie Beach Brown, through Friends of the Library in 1951
P.965.117
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: HKB; inscribed, on canvas: The fat boy awake on this occasion only.
Provenance
Perc S. Brown (1894-1963, Class of 1941P); given to the Dartmouth College Library in 1951; transferred to the present collection, 1965.
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