Location
WC1N 2LX
Dates
This exhibition CLOSED on Sun, 16th Apr 2017
This exhibition has finished.
Cost: £9
Description
A modest display of the illustrations and original text from the Ladybird Books edition on the life and works of Charles Dickens.
The book, An Adventure in History: Charles Dickens, was made by the publisher’s ‘dream team’, artist John Kenney (1911-1972) and writer Lawrence du Garde Peach (1890-1974).
This exhibition presents Kenney’s original gouache-on-board illustrations alongside Peach’s words.
Each shows an important scene from Dickens’s life in full colour with vivid characters and dynamic action. Kenney’s keen sense of historic detail is filtered by the flamboyant taste of his era: this is Victorian England, 1960s style.
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This exhibition has finished.
This event runs over several days/weeks. Dates include:
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