DEAF AND DUMB ARTIST'S TRIBUTE TO DICKENS.
The Duncannon Tavern, Charing Cross, situated almost next door to the still-existing inn yard of the old Golden Cross Hotel, which figures in “The Pickwick Papers,” possesses a room that ha. every inch of its wall space decorated with paintings of scenes from that immortal work. There is the Eatanswil! election, the Bardell v. Pickwick dal, Christmas at Dingley Dell, Pickwick in the pound, and many others, whilst in odd nooks and corners Sam Weller. Tingle. Winkle and others are ’epicted All nearly life-size. The pictures vere painted some six years ago by Mr A R. Thompson, a young deaf and dumb artist, then almost unknown to fame, who has since had exhibited in the Royal Academy a picture which was , bought by Sir William Orpen.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18805, 6 July 1929, Page 23 (Supplement)
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133DEAF AND DUMB ARTIST'S TRIBUTE TO DICKENS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18805, 6 July 1929, Page 23 (Supplement)
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