Happy 200th birthday, Charles Dickens, author of "Oliver Twist,"
"Great Expectations," "A Christmas Carol," "The Old Curiosity
Shop," and much more. Portrait of Dickens as a young man. The
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript has both well-known and unique
images of Dickens at various times in his life. Dickens’
contemporaries would have recognized this and the following
portrait. Photographs of Dickens near the end of his life.
(Beinecke Library) Portrait of Dickens as a parliamentary
reporter, painting by Daniel Maclise, This and the next portrait
— the only copies of which are at the Beinecke Library — were
created by friends of Dickens and illustrators of his books, and
were less iconic likenesses. (Beinecke Library, Gimbel
Collection) Sketch portrait of Dickens by John Leech, Dickens,
ca. 1855 to1860. (Beinecke, Gimbel Collection ) Wood engraving
by John Leech, “Scrooge is shown Ignorance and Want by the
Spirit of Christmas Present,” from “A Christmas Carol.”
(Beinecke Library) John Everett Millais, “L’Enfa