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Museum hopes photo set brings out colourful side of Charles Dickens

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, June 3, 2020 | 1:18 AM

Colourised images of a tanned and waistcoated author on show when museum reopens

Looking healthily tanned, with a warm expression, and wearing a natty yellow, green and blue Clan Gordon tartan waistcoat, he is unmistakably Charles Dickens – but as we’ve never seen him before.

The Charles Dickens Museum in London has created and released the first of a new set of colourised photographs of the writer in the run-up to the 150th anniversary of the author’s death. It is a taster of a major exhibition on images of Dickens that the museum will stage as soon as it is able to reopen after lockdown restrictions are relaxed further.

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