Harriet Waylett

Harriet Waylett, by Sir Edwin Landseer, circa 1825-1835 -NPG 3097(9) - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Harriet Waylett

by Sir Edwin Landseer
circa 1825-1835
6 1/8 in. x 4 1/2 in. (155 mm x 114 mm)
NPG 3097(9)

Inscriptionback to top

Inscribed in pencil (along the top): Mrs Waylett as 'a Butterfly' and in ink (along the bottom): Mrs Waylett, as the 'Butterfly'./by Sir Edwin Landseer.

This portraitback to top

This is part of a small collection of caricatures by Landseer.

Provenanceback to top

Appleby Brothers, purchased from them, 1940.


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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