'The Christ Church Express No.2' (includes Henry Longueville Mansel)

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Inscribed in ink (top left and right): The Christ Church Express No 2 Tuesday.
There are several pencil names identifying the figures, and below part of a letter from Clara Pusey.

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This drawing, together with a companion drawing of Dr Cotton receiving the Duke of Nemours at Worcester College on the reverse, was sent by Clara Pusey to her cousin, Alice Herbert, as part of a running commentary on people and events at Oxford. The letter to Alice, on both sides of the sheet, is given at length in the discussion of the collection as a whole. The figures at the table are, from left to right, Mansel, Clara Pusey, Mrs Brine, Mr Starkey, the Hon Alan Herbert, Mr Brine and Mrs Mansel.

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Peter Eaton; Theodore Hoffman, purchased from him, 1967.


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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