Légende

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.

Date

1843

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A16_361

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (2,9Mo) / 30,1cm x 41,6cm / 3553 x 4918 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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