At Home.
In this gathering of family and friends on the lawn at Gad's Hill, captured in a steel engraving after a photograph taken in 1861, Dickens reclines on the grass at front right. In early January 1869, two months into the ambitious tour of "Farewell Readings," he told his Swiss friend Monsieur De Cerjat that if his daughter Mamie were ever to marry ("which she won't"), he would sell Gad's Hill "and go genteelly vagabonding over the face of the Earth."