The Cadogan Express

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Inscribed in ink (top left): The Cadogan Express and (bottom right): coming out of Cathedral and (bottom left): Dearest Alice/How can I thank you & Jamie [inscription here cut off]

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This drawing of various figures emerging from the cathedral at Christ Church, Oxford, was sent by Clara Pusey to her cousin, Alice Herbert. The only identifiable figures are Bishop Wilberforce in the doorway, and Edward Pusey on the right.

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Peter Eaton; Theodore Hoffman, purchased from him, 1967.


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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