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Description: On the back of pages 13 and 14 are 2 sketches which were Cruikshank's first ideas for the plate "Oliver plucks up a spirit" in Oliver Twist. At the end of the volume are bound up some autograph letters of Thackeray and others, also a sketch for the cover of a magazine which Cruikshank and Ainsworth intended to publish.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1836-1887.
Call number: mssHM 30901
Creator: Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of August 1968.
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George Cruikshank letters

Manuscripts

The collection contains seventy-one letters addressed to George Cruikshank or his wife, Eliza Cruikshank. Most of the correspondence is concerned with Cruikshank's participation in the Temperance movement and many are requests for his presence at temperance society meetings. Some letters concern Cruikshank's art as well as his, and Eliza's, personal life. Correspondents include William Henry Merle, Charles Rogers, John Sheringham, H.E. Taylor and John Drayton Wyatt.

mssHM 41191-41261

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George Cruikshank letters

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mssHM 41191-41261

Oliver Twist

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Image of a central image a boy about to hit another boy who lies on the ground below him but is being held back by a maid in a kitchen area, while another servant looks on at the fighting, captioned “Oliver plucks up a spirit”; with a top-left vignette of a boy on his knees pleading before a magistrate while a group of lawyers look on, disinterested, captioned “Oliver escapes from the sweep”; and a bottom-right vignette of a young boy asking for more gruel from a male cook while other boys sitting on benches at a dining table look on fearfully, and a woman stands in background; the poster depicts scenes form “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens.

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Illustrations to Works of Charles Dickens: 265 pencil and watercolor drawings

Manuscripts

Volume 1 contains drawings from: Our Mutual Friend, Pickwick Papers, Bleak House, Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Tale of Two Cities, and Christmas stories. Volume 2 contains drawings from: Sketches by Boz, Hard Times, Martin Chuzzlewit, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, Barnaby Rudge, Edwin Drood, Dombey & Son, David Copperfield, and Nicholas Nickleby.

mssHM 40000

Oliver Twist : Nancy Sikes

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Image of a full-length portrait of the character Nancy Sikes, a young, poor woman who stands on docks of a wharf next to a barrel and rope, with a view of London buildings, the river, and ships behind her; the title has a geometric black and white line background; the poster depicts a character from “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens.

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