drawing
- Museum number
- 1886,0619.94
- Description
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Portrait caricature of John Forster, historian and biographer; three-quarter length, standing turned almost in profile to left and smiling
Pen and brown ink; on grey paper
- Production date
- 1824-1883
- Dimensions
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Height: 127 millimetres
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Width: 69 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Forster, author of 'Life of Dickens' and bequeathed 'The Forster Collection' of 18,000 volumes to S. Kensington Museum (now V & A), including mss of Dickens and paintings, prints and drawings.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1974 July-Dec, BM, Portrait Drawings, no.248
1983/4 Nov-Feb, London, V&A, 'Richard Doyle', no. 86
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by the Museum at Doyle's posthumous sale at Christie's in 1886.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1886,0619.94
