Edward Jesse

Inscriptionback to top

Signed and dated (lower left): D Macdonald/1844
Inscribed (bottom left): Mr Edward Jesse and below in another hand: Writer on Natural History

This portraitback to top

Nothing is known of the previous history of this drawing. The identification rests on the inscription.

Provenanceback to top

Messrs Suckling & Co, purchased from them, 1930.


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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