Candles Gallery

Scene from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 1843. Artist: John Leech

Scene from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 1843. The irascible, curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge, sitting alone on Christmas Eve, is visited by the ghost of Marley, his late business partner. The same night he is visited by three more apparitions, the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future, whose revelations cause him to wake on Christmas Day a changed man. He sends a turkey to Bob Cratchit his clerk, thoroughly enjoys the festivities and becomes a kindly, jolly old man. From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. (London, 1843). This was the first in the series of five Christmas books Dickens published

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The Innkeeper's Wife and Daughter Taking Care of ye Don after Being Beaten and Br

The Innkeeper's Wife and Daughter Taking Care of ye Don after Being Beaten and Bruised (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote), 1756 or after

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Candlestick with Lighted Candle from: Insigne Ac Plane Novum Opus Cratero graphicum

Candlestick with Lighted Candle from: Insigne Ac Plane Novum Opus Cratero graphicum; Ein new kunnstbuch (...) von allerley trinnckgeschiren Credenntzen unnd Bechernn (...), 1551

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