FDA-D.352-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.352-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Portrait of W. E. Gladstone (1809-98), aged 19
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length drawn portrait of a young man, with one hand resting on hip
Other number
CP 1
Description
Dimensions
height (sight size): 284mm
width (sight size): 233mm
width (sight size): 233mm
Inscription
Signed and dated lower right: 'F.J. Meyer/ 1830'
Materials & techniques note
Pencil, grey and pink wash
Physical description
Half-length portrait, with wooden frame, gilt fillet, glazed
Production
Person
Meyer, Frederick John, ? - 1844 (Artist)
Date
1830
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of W. H. Spielmann in c.1936; with Agnew’s London; from whom purchased by Eton College in 1948
Exhibited: Museum of Eton Life
Bibliographical references: A. Tilney Bassett (editor), 'Gladstone to his Wife' (1936), frontispiece
Exhibited: Museum of Eton Life
Bibliographical references: A. Tilney Bassett (editor), 'Gladstone to his Wife' (1936), frontispiece
