Copper plate used to print a trade card for the Leather Bottle Hotel, Cobham, Kent.
Published / Created:
England, 1860s?
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : copper ; 9.7 x 13.3
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsTX910.G7 L43 1860Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View catalog record for the printed trade card
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13299450
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Housed with a copy of the printed trade card. See link herewith.Text, from top left to bottom right: "Hot punch, a specialité. An ordinary at half past one. Superior bedrooms & private apartments. Dickens' old Pickwick, Leather Bottle Hotel. Cobham, opposite the church & college, Kent. All among the cherries, apples & hops. Favorite resort of Charles Dickens. 4 miles from Gravesend & Strood, 1 mile from Sole St. Station, L.C. & D. Ry. Luncheons, dinners & teas served in the Pickwick Room. Billiards & pool, table by Burroughes & Watts. 'Clean & commodious' vide Pickwick. Telegrams- 'Pickwick, Cobham, Kent.'"The engraved trade card includes a small portrait of Dickens and a larger illustration of Samuel Pickwick addressing the Pickwick Club -- the latter copied faithfully from Robert Seymour's illustration in the Pickwick papers (1836). The Leather Bottle inn is described in chapter 11 of the novel, and Dickens was a frequent visitor there in the 1860s.
Subject Terms:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870. Pickwick papers. | Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 -- Homes and haunts. | Leather Bottle (Cobham, England) | Burroughes & Watts. | Hotels -- Great Britain. | Taverns (Inns) -- Great Britain. | Tourism -- Great Britain. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Copperplates -- Specimens.