The Empty Chair
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The Empty Chair is a poignant 1870 illustration by Samuel Luke Fildes depicting Charles Dickens’s vacant study chair, symbolizing the author’s recent death and unfinished work.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Empty Chair canonical | 1 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
illustration
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work of art ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
detailed line work
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documentary realism ⓘ |
| artMovement | Victorian art ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Charles Dickens
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Dickensian studies NERFINISHED ⓘ Victorian mourning culture ⓘ |
| commissionedFor | commemorating Charles Dickens ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Samuel Luke Fildes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorOccupation | Samuel Luke Fildes was an English illustrator NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
Charles Dickens’s empty study chair
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Charles Dickens’s study ⓘ |
| depictsLocation | Gad’s Hill Place study NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictsTime | shortly after the death of Charles Dickens ⓘ |
| genre |
Victorian illustration
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memorial illustration ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalContext |
Victorian era
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posthumous commemoration of Charles Dickens ⓘ |
| hasPart |
bookshelves
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lamp ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ vacant armchair ⓘ writing desk ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
melancholic
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poignant ⓘ realistic ⓘ |
| inception | 1870 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | death of Charles Dickens in 1870 ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | none (visual work) ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
absence
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death of Charles Dickens ⓘ unfinished work ⓘ |
| medium | black-and-white illustration ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Charles Dickens’s absence from his study ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Charles Dickens
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evocative representation of an absent author ⓘ use of an empty chair as a symbol of loss ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1870 ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Charles Dickens’s recent death
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Dickens’s unfinished manuscripts ⓘ loss and mourning ⓘ the end of Dickens’s literary career ⓘ the silence after creative activity ⓘ |
| title | The Empty Chair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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