Chatterton | Objects, Setting & Important Places

Chatterton Objects/Places

Bristol

Bristol is the small town where Thomas Chatterton was born and raised.

St. Mary Redcliffe Church

This is the church where Chatterton's father worked until three months before Chatterton was born. It is also where Chatterton found fragments of manuscripts that inspired his "Rowley" sequence.

The Garret on Brooke Street, Holborn

This garret is where Chatterton committed suicide.

Arsenic and opium

This is the cure Chatterton took to cure his clap and in his drunken state accidentally overdosed with.

Leno Antiques

Leno Antiques is the junk store where Charles traded his books on flutes for the portrait of the unknown gentleman.

The Cumberland and Maitland Gallery

This is the art gallery where Vivien works and where Harriet Scrope takes the painting to have it authenticated.

Painting of an Unknown Gentleman

This is the painting Charles Wychwood finds that leads him to research Thomas Chatterton, and is later destroyed when an artist attempts to restore it.

Henry Wallis's painting, Chatterton

This is the only known portrait of the poet, though the model was actually George Meredith, another poet.

The Chatterton Manuscripts

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