John Nicholson

Inscriptionback to top

Signed and dated in pencil (lower right): W^m Carpenter/Peshawur/1854
Inscribed in pencil in a later hand (bottom left): John Nicholson

This portraitback to top

This drawing was engraved by W. Roffe as the frontispiece to the Rev J. Cave-Browne's The Punjab and Delhi in 1857 (1861), II. According to the donor (letter of 12 October 1954, NPG archives), 'Nicholson stayed with my great uncle Major General Sir Herbert Edwardes who was commissioner at Peshawur then - for Xmas 53/54 - & I should think that was probably when he had done it - gave it to him ... Nicholson was a great friend of Sir Herbert Edwardes'.

Physical descriptionback to top

Healthy complexion, brown eyes, hair and beard. Dressed in a white shirt and dark coat.

Provenanceback to top

Sir Herbert Edwardes; by descent to his great-niece, Mrs R. S. Vandeleur, and purchased from her, 1954.


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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