Charles Waterton

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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.

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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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