Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

A self-portrait drawing of 1881 is in the Scottish NPG; a drawing by H. Furniss is reproduced Furniss, Some Victorian Men (1924), facing p 20; an etching by P. Rajon, after G. Reid, was published James Nasmyth: an Autobiography, edited S. Smiles (1883), frontispiece; a photograph by Lock and Whitfield (example in NPG) was published Men of Mark (1877), p 18; a photograph by D. O. Hill and R. Adamson of 1843-5 is reproduced H. Schwartz, David Octavius Hill (1932), plate 23; there is a woodcut from an unidentified magazine (example in NPG).


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.