Dead, Mr. Peggotty? I hinted, after a respectful pause. "Drowndead," said Mr. Peggotty..

Dead, Mr. Peggotty? I hinted, after a respectful pause. "Drowndead," said Mr. Peggotty..

Collins, Mary Ann Hodgson, 1839-1928

Christian Scientist

1889

One of a set of 13 tiles with illustrations from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; Fred Barnard's 1871-1879 illustrations This particular illustration shows a family of four, a man, a woman, and two children sitting opposite of one another at the fireplace. The woman is knitting/crocheting something and the man is smoking his pipe, with one leg crossed over the other. The two children, a boy and a girl appear to be huddled togehter, as close to the corner as possible. The fireplace contains a great fire atop the mantle sits a sailboat and two decorative objects. A framed artwork piece of a sailboat hangs upove the decorative sailboat on the mantle. The color is brown and sepia.in pencil on the back "3 corner left" along with previous numbers assigned H-A3.1-1.30 and H.166.

Tile--hand-painted

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

Book

Character

Man

Woman

Boy

Girl

Knitting

Pipe

House

Fireplace

Fire

Mantle

Ornament

Framed picture

Sailboat

Trunk

Illustrations

Barnard, Fred (1846-1896)

Art

Decoration

Illustration

Plains to Peaks Collective

physical object

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