Charles Dickens - Fitzgerald Collection

Listed here you will find the art and illustration personal to Charles Dickens as held in the Fitzgerald Collection at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre

 item 339 (h) Birthplace of Dickens (postcard)  item 390 (m) Bleak House, Broadstairs  item 297 (l) Bust modelled by Dexter in USA in 1842  item 298 (d) Bust modelled by Fitzgerald, at Prudential Assurance Society  item 387 (x) Bust modelled by Woolner  items 338 and 387 (z) Gad's Hill: Print  item 322 (v) back of Gad's Hill House  item 299 (gg) Sun-dial: exhibited at Dudley Gallery Exhibition  item 297 (dd) and 349 (ff) Devonshire Terrace House  item 296 (e) Entrance Hall  item 389 (gg) Pen, drawn by Fildes  items 196 and 389 (w) Ravens  item 300 (zza) Tavistock House

Listed here you will find the portraits of Charles Dickens as held in the Fitzgerald Collection at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre.

 item 295 circa 1861 item 331 (r) 1850 (Penny Illustrated paper)  item 331 (ff) 1829 by Count D'Orsay  item 318 (o) behind the scenes  item 331 (cc) 'Boz' in his study, by Sala  item 322 (b, k) as Bobadil  item 390 (a) 'Bookman', June 1901  item 387 (ff) and his Characters (W. O. Gray and W. Broadfoot)  item 330 (c) at Coal Hole Tavern mimic court  item 387 (o) Engraving, photo by Mayall  item 9 Pen and Ink sketch by Mrs. German Reed  item 341 (e) Portrait  item 387 (t) Portrait by Ary Scheffer  item 390 (jj) Portrait by D. Maclise  item 388 (n, o, p) portraits  item 387 (u) from photo by Lea (G.L.)  item 341A (p) at his reading desk  item 387 (f) last  item 339 (t) new by Cruikshank. 'Sit still, Charley, while I take your portrait'  items 17, 387 (b), and 259 (d) riding

Listed here you will find the art and illustration of Dickensian artists as held in the Fitzgerald Collection at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre. These items are arranged in alphabetical order by artist's surname.  item 304 Ackerman (Publisher). American Pickwick illustrations, 1837  items 31-34 Army and Navy Auxiliary: Photographic Reproductions  item 339 (e) B. H.K., Three prints of 'Boz' topography  item 388 (s-y) Barnard, Fred. Dickensian Characters  item 382 (r) Barnard, Fred. Jingle  item 320 (h) Barnard, Fred. Mr. Pickwick  item 351 Barnard, Fred. Postcards (12 Cassell's Art Series)  item 318 (q) Baynes, T.M. Chatham Dockyard, 1831  item 387 (ff) Broadfoot, W. Dickens and his Characters  item 315 Browne, Hablot K. ('Phiz') Dickens illustrations, 1900  item 318 (g) Browne, Hablot K. ('Phiz'). Catalogue of works of the late H.K.B.. Fine Art Society, 1883  item 319 (c) Browne, Hablot K. ('Phiz'). Original plates by 'Phiz', coloured by Pailthorpe (43 prints)  item 360 Browne, Hablot K. ('Phiz'). American prints after'Phiz'.  item 374 Browne, Hablot K. ('Phiz'). Reproductions of original sketches in Victoria Edition, with etchings (1837?)  item 375 (m, p, q) Browne, Hablot K. ('Phiz'). 'Phiz' Plates  items 339 (e) and 380 Browne, Hablot K. ('Phiz'). Pickwickian Plates  item 297 (gg, hh) Brundage, Frances. Four Dickensian Characters (coloured plates)  items 31-34 Buss, R.W. 'Extras' in 'Autograph' Edition  item 249 Buss, R.W. Illustrations of Scott's Novels  item 296 (u, v, w) Buss, R.W. Illustrations  item 300 (ww, xx) Buss, R.W. Illustrations to Pickwick. Title page and breakdown of Wardle and Pickwick. A third of Smike(?).  item 308 Buss, R.W. Illustrations for Calcutta Pickwick  item 319(m) Buss, R.W. Illustrations for Pickwick (three plates). Pickwick and Tony Weller.  item 9 Clarke, J. Clayton ('Kyd'). 42 'Kyd' Sketches of Pickwick Characters  items 314 and 389(g) Clarke, J. Clayton ('Kyd'). Illustrations to 'The Characters of Charles Dickens'  item 319 (d) Clarke, J. Clayton ('Kyd'). 'Some well known characters from the works of Charles Dickens'  item 319(n) Clarke, J. Clayton ('Kyd'). Watercoloured Pictures(17)  item 320(a) Clarke, J. Clayton ('Kyd'). 'Character Sketches from Charles Dickens'. (13) The last one duplicated  item 338 Clarke, J. Clayton ('Kyd'). Coloured postcards (14) Raphael Tuck  item 341(a,r,s,t,u) Clarke, J. Clayton ('Kyd'). Coloured postcards. (4)  item 351 Clarke, J. Clayton ('Kyd'). Coloured postcards.(14)  item 387(d) Clarke, J. Clayton ('Kyd'). Coloured postcards  item 390(rr,ss,tt,uu) Clarke, J. Clayton ('Kyd'). Coloured postcards.  item 31-34 Covey, Christopher (Sydney, Australia) Extras in 'Autograph Edition of Pickwick  item 375(k) Coveny, Christopher. Prospectus of the 'Coveny' Plates (Sydney, 1883)  items 31-34 Crowquill, Alfred ('Sam Weller Jr.') ''Extras' in 'Autograph' Edition  item 298(w) Crowquill, Alfred. 'Boz in a Merry Key'. Cartoon illustrating a comic song  item 304 Crowquill, Alfred Pickwick illustrations (America 1841)  item 315 Cruikshank, George. 'Dickens Illustrations' (George Redway, 1900)  item 309 Cruikshank, G. Jr. Pickwick Illustrations  item 297(l) Dexter. Bust of Dickens modelled in USA in 1842  item 331(ff) D'Orsay, Count. Portrait of Dickens  item 381 Dulcken, Augustus. Scenes from Pickwick Papers  items 31-34 Eastmead, F.F. 'Extra' in 'Autograph' Edition of Pickwick  items 31-34 Eytinge, S Jr. 'Extras' in 'Autograph' Edition of Pickwick  item 309 Eytinge, S. Jr. 'Pickwick Illustrations'  item 300(b) Fairburn (Publisher). Sheet of coloured 'Fairburn's Characters, Pickwick')  item 315 Fildes, Sir S. Luke. Dickens Illustrations (1900)  item 389(gg) Fildes, Sir S. Luke. Sketch of Dickens' pen  item 298(d) Fitzgerald, Percy Bust of Dickens  item 331(i) Fitzgerald, Percy. Sketch of the 'Old Black Jack' before it was pulled down  item 332 Flower, Charles E. Postcards of the Legal Quarters of London  item 348(s) Furniss, Harry Pickwick in German, Dutch and Japanese Guise  item 381 Gibson, C. Dana 'The People of Dickens'  items 31-34 Gilbert, Sir John 'Extras' in 'Autograph' Edition of Pickwick  item 31-34 Gilbert, Sir John. Title page of Appleyard's Edition. 32 plates  item 192 Gilbert, Sir John. 'Cricket on the Hearth' (appeared in Illustrated London News)  item 309 Gilbert, Sir John. Pickwick Illustrations  item 337 Gilbert, Sir John. Pickwick plates (Greenway and Wright) (23)  item 337 Gilbert, Sir John. Pickwick plates. Cut out of some edition of Pickwick (8_  item 375(c,d,e,i,) Gilbert, Sir John. Plates (4)  items 31-34 Gowling, Lionel 'Extra's in 'Autograph' Edition of Pickwick  item 387(ff) Gray, W.O. ' Dickens and his Characters'  item 17 Green, Charles. R.I. 'Old Curiosity Shop': Scene at the Races  items 31-34 Green, Charles. R.I. 'Extras' in 'Autograph' Edition of Pickwick  item 34 Grego, Joseph,. With alterations by Dickens' instructions. See also 348(p)  item 318(t) hamper, W. Old print of Rochester castle and bridge  items 31-34 Heath, William. 'Extras' in 'Autograph' edition  item 349(i) Hudson, H. Cartoon. 'His professional Experience' (serjeant Buzfuz)  item 322(s) Kitton, Frederic G. Miss Jennie Lee as 'Jo'  item 387(l) Kitton, Frederic G. Portrait of  item 387(u) Lea, G.L. Engraving of Photo of Dickens  item 315 Leech, John ' Dickens Illustrations'. (Geo Redway, 1900)  items 308 and 375(g) Leslie, C.R., R.A. Plates from 'Pickwick Papers' (Calcutta Edition)  item 332 Ludovici. Coloured prints(4)  item 351 Ludovici. Postcards (12)  item 310 Martin, Charles. 'Twelve Victorian Celebrities'  item 261 Maurice, E.F. Picture postcards (14)  item 320(n) may, Phil cartoon of JohnBull as 'Pickwick' ('Puck' 11 January, 1890)  item 387(o) Mayall. Engraving of Dickens' portrait  item 322(v) Meadows, Kenny. Scene from 'The Chimes' at Adelphi Theatre (January 1845)  item 34 Meadows, Kenny Title page of Pickwick Characters (Bells' Life in London)  item 349(l) Mills, E.H. Photo of Marcus Stone  item 227 Nast, Thomas. 'Pickwick Papers' with 52 illustrations (1873)  item 337 New, E.H. Pickwick Plates (25)  item 375(bb) Newman, J. Plates (2). (Very dirty - J.Y.W.)  item 360 Newman, J. Prints published in parts (many duplicates. 52 in all)  item 308 Nurse, W.H. Plates from Pickwick Papers  items 9 and 315 Onwhyn, T. Illustrations to Pickwick, 1847 (12), coloured by hand by F.W. Pailthorpe, 1894  items 31-34 Onwhyn, T. 'Extras' in 'Autograph' edition  item 360 Onwhyn, T. Prints (16)  items 31-34 Pailthorpe, F.W. 'Extras' in 'Autograph' Edition  item 9 Pailthorpe, F.W.T. Onwhyn's Pickwick Illustrations coloured by Pailthorpe  items 43 and 319(c) Pailthorpe, F. W.T. Onwhyn's Pickwick Illustrations coloured by Pailthorpe  item 320(o) Pailthorpe, F.W.T. Coloured plate, Sam Weller only  item 36L Pailthorpe, F.W.T. Illustrations to the Pickwick Club (24 in all but 28)  item 9 Rainey, W. Pickwick Prints (8)  item 322(i) Redington, J. Scenes in Oliver Twist  item 331(c) Sala, G.A. 'Boz' in his study  items 31-34 Seymour, Robert. 'Extras' in 'Autograph' Edition  item 179 Seymour, Robert. Some of original plates for Pickwick  item 308 Seymour, Robert. Reproductions in Calcutta Editions  item 320(t) Seymour, Robert. 'Sketches by Seymour'. No. 15, Vol II. 'Another pigeon egad etc'  item 374 Seymour, Robert. Reproductions of Original Sketches in Victoria Edition (1837)  item 375(m,aa) Seymour, Robert. Plates  items 31-34 Shepherd, George. 'Extras' in 'Autograph' Edition  items 31-34 Sibson,Thomas. 'Extras' in 'Autograph' Edition  item 220 Sibson,Thomas. Plates designed for Master Humphrey's Clock (1842) (70)  item 361 Sibson,Thomas. Plates for 'Sketches for Expeditions from The Pickwick Club' (8 out of 10 plates in the cover) (1838)  item 388(jj) Steer, H.R. (R.I.) 'Quilp'  item 315 Stone , Marcus. Dickens illustrations  item 298(t) Sturgess, John. 'Bagman's Story': 'Whew! How they tore along!'  item 298(x) Tregear. ' Tregear's Flights of Humour', No. 63. Useful knowledge:coloured print  item 331(ee) Tyrell, T.W. Photo of 'The Sign of the Dog's Head in the Pot'  items 31-34 Valentine and Sons. Photographic Reproductions for 'Autograph' Edition  item 338 vanderhoof, C.A. Prints of Dean's Court and Goswell Road  item 387(d,ff,gg) Watson, P.H. Raphael Tuck's postcard series 'In Dickens' Land'  item 239 Watson, R. Fletcher Raphael Tuck's postcard series 'In Dickens Land'. (11 coloured) (mainly of Rochester)  items 31-34 Wingent, H. Photographic Reproductions for 'Autograph' Edition  item 331(mm) Woodroffe, A. Norfolk Crescent, Bath  item 387(x) Woolner. Bust of Dickens

Listed here you will find the calendars and cards of various kinds as held in the Fitzgerald Collection at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre.

 item 58 Royal Kalendar, 1823 (contains the name of John Dickens)  item 253 Pickwick Comic Calendar, 1838  item 168 Household Words Almanac, 1837  item 320 (d) Dickens Calendar, 1896 (Marcus Ward's)  item 320 (b) Dickens Calendar, 1897 (Nister's)  items 319 (e) and 320( f) Dickens Calendar, 1898 (Nister's)  item 319 (a) Dickens Calendar, 1899  item 9 Dickens Calendar, 1902  item 319 (o) Dickens Calendar, 1903 (Raphael Tuck's)  item 302 Dickens Land Calendar, 1904  items 339 (a) and 290 Pickwick Calendar, 1905  items 206, 239, 350, 341 (d, m), 320 (v, w, x), 301 (k) and 299 (y) Christmas Cards and calendars  item 207 Valentine. 'Barkis is willin'

Listed here you will find the political and advertising cartoons as held in the Fitzgerald Collection at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre.

 item 331 (w) Beecham's Pills (Mr. Pickwick)  item 9 Bill Sikes ('Punch'' 21 February 1906)  item 349 (i) Buzfuz  item 259 (s) Captain Cuttle as advertisement  item 341A (d) Catesby's Drolleries  item 293 (h) Curious Old Coloured Crayon  item 298 (w) Crowquill's 'Boz -in-a -Merry-Key'  item 341A (f) Dewar's Whisky  item 296 (ee, k) Dixon's Double Diamond Port(adv)  item 341A (j, k) Eiffel Tower Lemonade  item 296 (i) Eiffel Tower Lemonade and Sam Weller  item 331 (p) Encyclopaedia Britannica (Pickwick and Mrs Jarley)  item 324 (kk) Mazawattee Tea (Captain Cuttle)  item 320 (m) 'Moonshine', 27 June 1891: 'Stiggins'  item 331 (o) 'Punch' 19 July 1890. Oscar Wilde as the 'Fat Boy'  item 331 (s, u) 'Punch' 2 May 1885. Gladstone as Mrs Gummidge  item 339 (c) 'Punch' 31 October 1896.'The political Fat Boy again'  item 261 'Punch' ? Mr Balfour as the 'Fat Boy'  item 320 (m) 'Puck.' 11 January 1890 John Bull as Pickwick  item 296 (d) 'St Stephen's Review.' 20 June, 1891. Sairey Gamp and Mrs Prig  item 331 (z) and 341 (+f) 'Tower Tea': Pickwick  item 339 (n) Van Houten's Cocoa. Bumble  item 259 (p) Van Houten's Cocoa. Tony Weller  item 196 Van Houtens' Cocoa. Micawber  item 295 (m) 'Westminster Gazette'. Cartoon by F.C. Gould  item 298 (c) Westminster Gazette. Cartoon by F.C. Gould

Listed here you will find the political and advertising cartoons as held in the Fitzgerald Collection at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre.

Listed here you will find the topographical prints and photographs, both London and provincial, as held in the Fitzgerald Collection at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre.

London  item 387(c) Buckingham Street, No. 15 (Mrs Crupp's)  item 338 Dean's Court  item 297 (dd) Devonshire Terrace  item 296 (c) Devonshire Terrace, interior  item 331 (ee) Dog's Head in the Pot (photo by Tyrell, T.W.)  item 338 Furnival's Inn, house in  item 338 Goswell Road  item 349 (f) Jack Straw's Castle  item 387 (aa) London Houses of the Novels  item 332 London Legal Quarters  item 351 'Old Boot' (Print. Rebuilt in 1801)  item 387 (jj) Old Curiosity Shop in Portsmouth Street  item 388 (ze) Spenlow's House  item 351 Staple Inn. Outer Quadrangle  item 338 Tulkinghorn's House (58 Lincoln's Inn Fields) Not Yet Analysed  items 331 (oo, qq, rr, ss, tt), 332, and 387 (d, ff, gg) In Dickens-Land postcards  item 350 Other postcards  items 351 and 353 Hildersheimer's Provinces Bath  items 17, 256, 282, 306 and 340 Postcards and Illustrations  item 331 (mm) Norfolk Crescent  item 341A (w) Bath Festival post card  item 296 (qq) Illustrated map Broadstairs  item 298 (a) Dickens Fete and Fancy dress  item 387 (ff) An Old Print  item 390 (m) Bleak House  item 180 Fort House Chalk  item 387 (y) Dickens' honeymoon house Chatham  items 226 and 340 Sundry plates from various sources not stated Chigwell  item 387 (b) The Old King's Head ('Maypole') Clifton  item 17 Cobham  item 226 Sundry plates from various sources not stated  item 318 (m) Leather Bottle  Gad's Hill  items 338 and 382 (aa) Print  item 322 Back view  item 382 (aa) Chalet  item 300 (d) and 339 (i) Sir John Falstaff Inn  Maidstone  items 31-34 The jail (pulled down in 1897) Rochester  items 226, 239 and 340 sundry plates from various sources  item 318 (t) Castle and bridge: Old print  item 318 (n) Cathedral without spire  items 297 (e) and 390 (f) Cloisterham  item 339 (j) College Gate postcard  item 318 (n) From the Medway  items 296 (t) and 338 Old Bridge in Pickwick's time (1828)  item 297 (w) Watt's Charity Tewkesbury  items 325 (f) and 340 Tewkesbury  item 325 (e) 'The Hop Pole Hotel'

Listed here you will find the miscellaneous plates, prints and photographs, where the artist or designer is unknown, as held in the Fitzgerald Collection at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre.

 items 319 (g) and 320 (g, i) Alfred Jingle  items 360 and 361 American Prints  items 319 (j) and 300 (xxb) Buzfuz, Mr Serjeant  item 331 (ll) and 33 Betsy Trotwood etc  item 299 (cc) Captain Cuttle (copyright, Chapman and Hall)  item 331 (ii) cancelled Plate (Mr Pickwick and Wardle upset)  item 320 (l) Cover (coloured) 'Notable Novel Series'  item 297 (g) Cheeryble and Nicholas Nickleby (pen and ink sketch)  item 299 (ff) Empty chair (initialled J.B. or J.T.)  item 362 German Penny Pickwick (plates)  item 318 (q) Irving, Mr Henry, as Alfred Jingle  item 319 (k) Joe, the fat Boy (coloured)  item 297 (k) Josephine  item 320 (j) Juvenile Conundrums, Pickwick (published by J.L. Marks) (coloured)  item 227 Pickwick Plates.  item 180 Pickwick. Cover part XV  items 298 (s) and 320 (r, b) Mr Pickwick (coloured)  items 319 (b, h) Samuel Pickwick Esq (coloured)  item 319 (i) Mr Pickwick in the wrong room  item 320 (k) Pickwick characters(coloured)  item 34 Envelope after 'Mulready'  item 331 (d) 'Poor Old Eddard'  item 293 (i) Oliver Twist: Steel plate  item 200 Reynold's 'Scrapbook of literary Varieties'  item 331 (j) 'Reverie, A' (The Chimes)  item 339 (b) Rudge, Mrs  item 331 (o) Title page of Oliver Twist  item 339 (b) Varden, Mrs  item 319 (f) Wellers, The (coloured)  items 319 (b, l),320, and 341(c) Sundries  item 320 (p, z, aa, bb, cc, dd, ee) Pickwickian Illustrations from Bell's life  items 168, 333, 350, 351,354,390 (rr, ss, tt, uu) Scraps, Transfer Pictures, Postcards