Bumble, Charles Dickens's dog

A carte-de-visite showing Charles Dickens's favourite dog, Bumble, and Bumble's doghouse at Gad's Hill. The carte was produced shortly after Dickens's death at Gad's Hill in 1870, and was probably rushed out to capitalise on the nation's grief.

According to My Father as I Recall Him (1892) by Mary ('Mamie') Dickens, the author's eldest daughter: 'A few years later came "Don," a Newfoundland, and then "Bumble," his son, named after "Oliver Twist's" beadle, because of "a peculiarly pompous and overbearing manner he had of appearing to mount guard over the yard when he was an absolute infant."'

Photographed by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company