Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882
Title:
The spy's funeral.
Published / Created:
[London], [not before 1859]
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : steel ; 13 x 21 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR4571 .A1 1859a
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Phiz is the pseudonym of Hablot Knight Browne.

Title from caption of corresponding print.

Accompanied by a letter of authenticity issued by Arthur Waugh, of Chapman & Hall Ltd.

Issued with the Nonesuch Dickens, published 1937-1938 by the Nonesuch Press.

Inscribed on the reverse "John Sellers and Sons, Sheffield" with the firm's mark of a dagger entwined with the letter "S."

Dreyfus, J. History of the Nonesuch Press, 108

Steel plate for an an illustration from Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities in which the rowdy crowd celebrates the death of the spy, Roger Cly, and takes over the funeral procession as it makes its way through the street. A Tale of Two Cities was first published with illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz") in 1859.
Form/Genre:
Printing plates.
Contributors:
Illustration for (expression): Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870. Tale of two cities. | Chapman and Hall. | John Sellers and Sons. | Nonesuch Press.