- Brief description
- Ink-bottle set with a quill pen owned by Charles Dickens, c.1860
- Label
- This glass inkwell and quill were used by Dickens at his Kent home, Gad's Hill Place, where he lived from 1857 until his death in 1870. Dickens's sister-in-law and housekeeper, Georgina Hogarth, was one of two executors of his will and estate, and was responsible for distributing, selling, and authenticating many items belonging to Dickens after he died. She gave this inkwell to Thomas Beard, one of Dickens's oldest and closest friends. The inkwell can be see in The Empty Chair, Luke Fildes's engraving which captured the empty library at Gad's Hill Place after Dickens's death.
- Collection
- object
- Object number
- DH134
- Object type
- ink-stand
quill pen - Production date
- c.1860
- Inscription content
- Presented to Thomas Beard by Georgina Hogarth.
Charles Dickens's
Inkstand
From
Gad's Hill. 1870 - Inscription description
- There are two written labels on the underside of the wooden base which declare the original and subsequent owners of the inkstand.
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