On his second visit to America (1867-68) Dickens purportedly only had his photograph taken by Gurneys in New York, as he disliked sitting for photographers. The negatives were then sold to photographers in Boston and Washington. This print was one apparently made by Gardner's Washington studio sometime in 1868.

[Matted With:] Autograph card signed and inscribed ("Charles Dickens/Washington Seventh February 1868"), in blue ink, on verso of printed card which reads "Alexander Gardner" (not visible in frame). One page, 53 x 120mm. (2 1/8 x 4 ¾in.) mat size.