Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

George Borrow (1803-1881), Philologist and writer

No other portraits of Borrow are known, except a plaster-mask of c.1824 in the Norwich Castle Museum, reproduced Bookman, XLV (October 1913), 25 and a photograph, reproduced C. K. Shorter, George Borrow and his Circle (1913), and elsewhere.


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.