Edmund Kean
1 of 180 portraits by Samuel Cousins
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Regency Portraits Catalogue
Edmund Kean
by Samuel Cousins
1814
3 3/4 in. x 2 3/4 in. (95 mm x 70 mm)
NPG 1829
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Mezzotint by Samuel Cousins 1815; the only impression known is in NPG inscribed in ink: Drawn & Engraved by S Cousins (see Alfred Whitman, Samuel Cousins, 1904, 76); an etching by S. W. Reynolds was used as frontispiece to Theodore Norton's Kean: a Poem, 1835.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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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