Luke Fildes1844–1927Drawing
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Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
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About the work
Luke Fildes was commissioned to provide illustrations for Charles Dickens's last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Dickens died in 1870, before completing the text.
This is a study for an illustration entitled Sleeping It Off. The published image shows John Jasper lying across a four-poster bed in a London opium den, with an unnamed woman kneeling beside him. Later in the novel, she becomes known as Princess Puffer.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- E.790-1971
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- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
