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Portrait of Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford [drawing].

Accession number
PML 146390.121
Creator
Anonymous, British School, 19th cent.
Published
19th century
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Drawing is evidently a copy from a lithograph by Thomas Fairland after a portrait by Eden U. Eddis.
Inlaid in bound sheet
Description
1 drawing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil below at left: E.U. Eddis delt.; at right: T. Fairland lithog.; below center: The Marqs. Tavistock now Duke of Bedford / copied fron the origl. engraving; at bottom right: private plate.
Provenance
David Langton; John Dillon; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Head and shoulders portrait of the Duke of Bedford, turned slightly to the left, wearing a high collar, with the back of a chair sketched in behind him.
Classification
Department