Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth (1790-1868), Judge

A drawing is recorded in Richmond's 'Account Book' (photostat of original MS, NPG archives), p 44, under 1847, engraved by F. Holl, published J. Hogarth, 1850, and by W. Roll (examples in NPG); a woodcut by G. C. Leighton, after A. Blaikley (example in NPG), was published ILN, XXX (1857), between 126-7; a photograph by Mayall was published Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper (October 1858), p 312; a woodcut, after a photograph by W. and D. Downey, was published ILN, LIII (1868), 153.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.