Harriet Martineau

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Signed and dated (bottom left): George Richmond deln^t 1849.

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This drawing was engraved by F. Holl (example in NPG). E. H. Hodgson gave what he thought was another version of the drawing to a women's institution in the north of England (memorandum of an interview, 19 March 1941, NPG archives). Only one drawing, however, is listed in Richmond's 'Account Book'.

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Richmond
G. Richmond 'Account Book' (photostat copy, NPG archives), p 50, under 1849.

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The sitter, bequeathed by her niece, Miss Emily Higginson, 1917.

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Reproduced as a woodcut, ILN, LXIX (1876), 61; V. Wheatley, The Life and Work of Harriet Martineau (1957), frontispiece.


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.

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