"Blackground" Paintings 3: Innovators
2 August 2021 Blackground Paintings 3 Innovators "Poe Meets Dickens" In March of 1842 Edgar Allan Poe called on Charles Dickens at the United States Hotel in Philadelphia. This painting depicts Poe reading from a manuscript to the seated Dickens. The raven in the upper left connects the two in literature. Dickens' pet raven, "Grip," was included in his novel Barnaby Grudge in 1841. The bird died that year and is preserved in a display case in the Rare Books department of the Philadelphia Free Library. Poe's most famous work, The Raven, appeared in 1845. Dickens here gestures to the date 1842 Phil ยช , the year and place of their meeting, on the book before him. The gold ornamental bracket partially framing the scene is characteristic of 19th century book binding gilt stamped covers. I have signed in a monogram I designed in the same spirit. "Saints of Science" Modern science owes much of its foundation to Isaac Newton