English: Samuel Luke Fildes - The Empty Chair, engraving of a water colour by Fildes (The Graphic, Christmas Number, 1870.)
The Graphic version has the chair at a slightly different angle.
'The Empty Chair, Gad's Hill - 9th of June 1870'.
Fildes was illustrating "Edwin Drood" at the time of Charles Dickens' death. The watercolour shows Dickens' empty chair in his study. Vincent van Gogh, who had acquired all 212 volumes of "The Graphic" between 1870 and 1880, greatly admired the print (Sweetman, p.153).
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