Focus on Dickens and Little Nell (Elwell) and explore the abstract.
Dickens and Little Nell is a bronze sculpture by Francis Edwin Elwell that stands in Clark Park in the Spruce Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia. The sculpture depicts the 19th-century British author Charles Dickens and Nell Trent, a character from his 1840–41 novel The Old Curiosity Shop. The grouping was one of the most celebrated American sculptural works of the late 19th century.
It is one of just three known statues of Dickens, who said he wanted no such representations.
bronze sculpture Philadelphia Charles Dickens Nell Trent Clark Park Francis Edwin Elwell The Old Curiosity Shop Spruce Hill