Charles Waterton
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Charles Waterton
by Percy Fitzgerald
1860
3 1/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (79 mm x 98 mm) uneven
NPG 1621
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Inscribed in ink (top left): SO - (?)
Inscribed on a sheet of brown paper, formerly used as a backing for the drawing: Charles Waterton/Naturalist - Bird stuffer/Traveller, & eccentric/From a sketch made in 1860/at Walton Hall. Yorkshire/by Percy FitzGerald MA. FSA
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The date of the drawing was confirmed in a letter from the artist (NPG archives). There is a line of writing just visible at the bottom of the drawing, which has been cut off.
Provenanceback to top
The artist, presented by him, 1911.
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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