© Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum
Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Artist: George Dawe (British, 1781 - 1829)
Location: Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum
Date: circa 1811-1812
Materials: pencil & chalk on paper
Dimensions: 59 x 43cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £20,340 (Total: £40,680)
Vendor: Sotheby's
Review number: 5720 (2006)
Provenance:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge; by inheritance through the Coleridge family; Sotheby's, 2006.
Description:
This portrait of the great romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) is on two sheets joined together, known as laid paper". Dawe sketched the head and shoulders from life before completing the body on the second sheet. Coleridge was often critical of representations of himself, but remarked to Sir George Beaumont that Dawe had produced "a chalk drawing of my face which I think far more like than any former attempt"."
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