drawing
- Museum number
- 2012,7076.3
- Description
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Portrait of Catherine Wyon (?); bust, profile to left, wearing bonnet with ribbons tied under chin. early 1840s
Graphite on grey paper.
- Production date
- 1840s(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 247 millimetres
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Width: 204 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Philip Attwood notes this might be a portrait of the artist's mother, Catherine Sophia Wyon. See also 2009, AFBMLoan,7.5 and .54. The paper is double width and folded at the left. It has the following watermark: 'RUSE & TANNER 1840' (See Attwood 1997 (4 and 5)).
One of a group of 71 portrait drawings (2012, 7076.1-71). 29 of these are in an album. 42 are loose, of which this is one. For full description and comment see 2012, 7076.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2012
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2012,7076.3
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 2009,AFBMLoan,7.3 (AFBM Loan Number)