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From Dolly to Dorrit: William Powell Frith’s scenes from Dickens
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 576-585
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Author:
Bills, Mark (Bills, Mark)
Subjects
art literature:
Dickens, Charles
artists:
Frith, William Powell / Sibson, Thomas
subjects:
Victorian art / British art / Illustrations / Book illustrations / Versions / Prints / Commissions
subjects:
Novels
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Dolly Varden (‘The laughing Dolly’, second version), by William Powell Frith. 1842. Oil on canvas, 54.6 by 44.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
10. Interior of Marseille prison (a scene from Little Dorrit), by William Powell Frith. 1859. Oil on canvas, 60 by 48 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
11. The Marshalsea prison, by Lumb Stocks after William Powell Frith. 1859. Engraving, 22 by 14 cm. (Frontispiece to volume 2 of Little Dorrit in the Works of Charles Dickens, First Library Edition, London 1858–59).
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12. The Marshalsea prison (a scene from Little Dorrit), by William Powell Frith. 1859. Oil on canvas, 60 by 48 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Frontispiece to ‘Barnaby Rudge’, by Thomas Sibson. 1842. Etching, 23.5 by 14 cm. (Private collection).
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3. Dolly Varden (‘Dolly and the bracelet’), by Charles Eden Wagstaff, after William Powell Frith. 1843. Mezzotint, 51 by 41 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
4. Oval study for Dolly Varden, by William Powell Frith. 1843. Oil on canvas, 38 by 34 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
5. Kate Nickleby at Madame Mantalini’s, by William Powell Frith. 1856. Oil on canvas, 55 by 44 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
6. Kate Nickleby at Madame Mantalini’s, by William Powell Frith. c.1842–43. Oil on canvas, 61 by 51 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
7. Charles Dickens, by William Powell Frith. 1859. Oil on canvas, 98 by 84 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
8. The dining room in Dickens’s home at Gad’s Hill, showing Frith’s Dolly Varden and Kate Nickleby, hung as companions flanking the mirror (Charles Dickens Museum, London).
Attributed works:
9. Interior of Marseille prison (a scene from Little Dorrit), by William Luson Thomas after William Powell Frith. 1860. Wood engraving, 30 by 23 cm. (From the Illustrated Times, 21st January 1860, p.89).
Editorial
An artist’s house and its future
03/2016 | 1356 | 158
Pages: 171
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Author:
Bills, Mark (Bills, Mark)
Subjects
artists:
Gainsborough, Thomas
places:
Sudbury / Suffolk
subjects:
Editorials / Artists' houses / Museum history / Displays / Museum extensions
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
I. Installation view of the exhibition The Painting Room at Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
Western art unattributed:
II. Part of the mock-up room in the exhibition The Painting Room at Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
Western art unattributed:
III. Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, viewed from the back garden
Article
Thomas Gainsborough and the landscape frescos at Schomberg House
05/2015 | 1346 | 157
Pages: 331-334
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Author:
Bills, Mark (Bills, Mark)
Subjects
artists:
Gainsborough, Thomas
artists:
Berchet, Pierre
places:
England / London
subjects:
British painting / Frescoes / Artists' houses / Lost works / Lunettes / British architecture / Interiors / Attributions / Attributions, former
subjects:
Landscapes (visual works) / Damage to works of art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
42. Drawing by William T. Whitley of the layout of 80 Pall Mall, London. c.1910 (British Museum, London)
Western art unattributed:
39. The top of the stairwell of Schomberg House, 81 Pall Mall. Illustrated London News (19th April 1851), p.315
Western art unattributed:
40. The stairwell of 80 Pall Mall (Gainsborough's wing) with its square lantern. c.1960. (Photograph, London Metropolitan Archives)
Western art unattributed:
41. The ceiling at the top of the stairwell of 81 Pall Mall, London, showing the window which destroyed one of the frescos. c.1960. (Photograph, London Metropolitan Archives)
Western art unattributed:
43. The top of the stairwell of 81 Schomberg House, 81 Pall Mall, London, where the frescos were painted. c.1960. (Photograph, London Metropolitan Archives)
Western art unattributed:
44. Detail of Fig.39
Western art unattributed:
45. No.80 Schomberg House today. (Photograph by Anne Purkiss)
Article
William Powell Frith's 'The crossing sweeper': an archetypal image of mid-nineteenth-centruy London
05/2004 | 1214 | 146
Pages: 300-307
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Author:
Bills, Mark (Bills, Mark)
Subjects
artists:
Frith, William Powell
dates:
1800-1899
museums and institutions:
Museum of London, London, Great Britain
places:
England / London
print:
Frith, William Powell
subjects:
British painting / Victorian / Genre paintings
subjects:
Children / Working Class
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The crossing sweeper, by William Powell Frith. 1858. 43.1 by 25.5 cm. (Museum of London).
Attributed works:
10. The crossing sweeper, by William Powell Frith. 1858. 23 by 19 cm. (Courtesy Sotheby's, London).
Attributed works:
11. The crossing sweeper, by Charles William Sharpe, after William Powell Frith. 1864. Line engraving, 26.4 by 21.9 cm. (Guildhall Library, London).
Attributed works:
13. The crossing sweeper, by William Powell Frith. 1893. 43 by 35 cm. (Whereabouts unknown; photograph courtesy Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art).
Attributed works:
2. 'A poor sweep, sir!', by William Marshall Craig. From W.M. Craig: Itinerant Trades. Description of the plates, representing the itinerant traders of London in their ordinary costume; with notices of the remarkable places given in the background. Drawn by William Marshall Craig, and engraved by Edwards, London 1804. Hand-coloured engraving, 14 by 10 cm. (Guildhall Library, London).
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3. Pray remember the poor sweeper, by Thomas Rowlandson. From Characteristic sketches of the Lower Orders, intended as a companion to the New Picture of London: consisting of Fifty-four plates, neatly coloured, London 1820. Hand-coloured etching, 11.5 by 6.5 cm. (Guildhalll Library, London).
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7. Consecrated ground, by Hablot Knight Browne. Illustration for Bleak House, 1852. Etching, 10 by 8 cm. (Museum of London).
Attributed works:
9. Shaftesbury, or Lost and found, by William MacDuff. 1862. 46.7 by 40.5 cm. (Museum of London).
Western art unattributed:
12. The crossing sweeper. Anon. Parian figurine of c.1860. Porcelain, 33 by 18 by 12 cm. (Museum of London).
Western art unattributed:
4. Lady, 'No, I've nothing for you'. Anon. From Punch 25 (1853), p.215. Wood engraving, 8.5 by 8.5 cm. (Museum of London).
Western art unattributed:
5. Boy (to be-witch-ing Old Lady of Fashion). 'Was you a looking for a broom, Marm?'. Anon. From Punch 28. (1855) p.20. Wood engraving, 11 by 9.5 cm. (Museum of London).
Western art unattributed:
6. 'Please marm, yer bonnet's comin' off!'. Anon. From Punch 25 (1853), p.235. Wood engraving, 11 by 9.5 cm. (Museum of London).
Western art unattributed:
8. Boys exercising at Tothill Fields Prison. Anon. From H. Mayhew and J. Binny: The Criminal Prisons of London and scenes of Prison Life, London 1862, opp. p.356. Wood engraving, 10 by 12.5 cm. (Museum of London).
Article
'The General Post Office - One Minute to Six' by George Elgar Hicks
09/2002 | 1194 | 144
Pages: 550-556
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Author:
Bills, Mark (Bills, Mark)
Subjects
artists:
Hicks, George Elgar
dates:
1800-1899
museums and institutions:
Museum of London, London, Great Britain
places:
England
subjects:
British painting / Social history / Victorian
Illustrations
Attributed works:
29. The General Post Office - One Minute to Six, by George Elgar Hicks. 1860. 89 by 135 cm. (Museum of London).
Attributed works:
30. The General Post Office, by Fred Shepherd. c.1850. Pen and Wash, 9 by 14 cm. (Museum of London).
Attributed works:
32. General Post Office, London, at Six O'Clock, P. M., by Adolphe Best & Cie. 1853. Wood Engraving, c.27 by 18 cm. (Illustrated Magazine of Art [July 1853], p.336; by Permission of The British Library).
Attributed works:
33. Six O'Clock P. M.: Newspaper Window at the General Post Office, by William M'Connell. 1859. Wood Engraving, 11 by 15.5 cm. (From G. A. Sala: Twice Round the Clock, London [1859], p.233; Museum of London).
Attributed works:
34. Study for The General Post Office - One Minute to Six, by George Elgar Hicks. c.1860. Pencil and Wash with White Heightening, 19.5 by 29 cm. (Museum of London).
Attributed works:
35. Study of a Boy Stooping to Pick up Dropped Newspapers, by George Elgar Hicks. 1860. Pencil and Wash with White Heightening, 29.6 by 19.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
36. Detail of the Newsboy Whistling from Fig.29.
Attributed works:
37. Detail of the Policeman and Pickpocket from Fig.29.
Western art unattributed:
31. Receiving Office, Anonymous. 1845. Wood Engraving, 13 by 16 cm. (Illustrated London News [1st March 1845], p.40; Museum of London).