print
- Museum number
- 1949,0411.989
- Description
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Self-portrait, half-length wearing a cloak c.1898
Woodcut printed from two blocks on Japan paper
- Production date
- 1898
- Dimensions
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Height: 340 millimetres
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Width: 255 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Dodgson noted that only two or three proofs exist; another was with Colnaghi from the estate of C.H.Shannon in Dcember 1937. It was no.24 in the First Exhibition of Original Wood-Engraving held at the Dutch Gallery at 14 Brook Street in 1898, under the title 'A portrait (chiaroscuro)'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Acquisition notes
- According to Dodgson's note on the mount, he bought this impression at the sale of the prints of Madame Blanche Marchesi at Christie's on 28 March 1916.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1949,0411.989
