Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
George Dawe, c. 1811–1812
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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Title of artwork, date
Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, c. 1811–1812
Date supported
2006
Medium and material
Pencil & chalk on paper
Dimensions
59 x 43 cm
Grant
20340
Total cost
40680
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