Storytime, Dickens Charles, Mr Micawber, David Copperfield, Kyd, Clarke Joseph Clayton, 1837 -1839

Date: 1837-1839

Artist: Clarke, Joseph Clayton

Author: Dickens Charles

Novel: David Copperfield

Paper Size: 185 x 253

Condition: very good

Price: $80

Description: Beautiful original chromolithograph

Provenance:

Oliver Twist was an orphan aged 8 years old

Wilkins Micawber is a clerk fictional character in Dickens's Novel, David Copperfield. He is traditionally identified with the optimistic belief that " something will turn up"

Comes from Character sketches from Charles Dickens, Portrayed by Kyd in a series of watercolour sketches.

Biography

Joseph Clayton Clarke (1856-7 - 1937)

Clarke worked under the pseudonym "Kyd." he was a British artist best known for his illustrations of characters of the Charles Dickens Novels.

He was born in Peel on the Isle of Man. in 1889, he married Agnes Roberts and they had 9 children. He was also a designer of cigarette cards and postcards