Hannah More

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Signed in brown ink below left: Augt Edouart fecit 1827 and inscribed above in pencil: Correct likeness of the celebrated Mrs Hanna More taken from nature in her Study at Barley wood the 12th June 1827 - by A. Edouart.<sup>1

1</sup> Edouart’s trade label formerly on the verso, as illus. S. McKechnie, British Silhouette Artists and their Work 1760-1860, 1978, p 306, fig.397.

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Sotheby’s, 25 July 1966, lot 15, bought Woollett for the NPG.

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Cardinal Newman NPG, 1990 (27).


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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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