Joseph Clayton Clark had many occupations
during his career as an artist. He
designed cards and postcards, worked as a fore-edge artist and was a water
colourist. He was apparently an
eccentric man and rather
profligate. He started to work for
“Punch” but only lasted one day.
From 1912 he began to specialise in Charles Dickens characters.
These prints are from a book called The characters of Charles Dickens
pourtrayed in a series of original
water colour sketches by ‘Kyd’ , published about 1889. They are full of humour and life.
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There are 24 sketches in the book but the
prints in this exhibition (see listing) depict
some of Dickens’s best known
characters.
Joan Wintour
February 2004