Photographic portrait of Charles Dickens John & Charles Watkins | Londres n. d. [circa 1860] | 6.4 x 9.6 cm | photograph
Original photograph on albumin paper, in a visiting-card format, laid down on card. Manuscript annotations to verso, most notably “Romi”. Robert Miquel, journalist and French “chronicler of the unusual” kept a shop at 15 rue de Seine, immortalized by Robert Doisneau in his series La Vitrine de Romi.
We have found only one other copy of this photograph, at the Museum of London.