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G1249
Drawings: G1249
Title
Sarah Siddons
Subject
Artist
Scott, Edmund [ Print made by ]
Dimensions
height (mount): 24.1cm
width (mount): 21.6cm
height: 9.5cm
width: 8cm
width (mount): 21.6cm
height: 9.5cm
width: 8cm
Other materials
Watercolour drawing
Inscription/signature
Handwritten on reverse: "Edmund Scott (1746-1810) / W3478"
On back of mount, written in unknown hand: " 'Mrs Siddons, from the life' / according to Ms index to / album of similar heads by / Scott from which this came. / Coll: Michael Harvard 1962"
Provenance
Gifted to the Garrick Club by Nicholas Barker, June 2023.
Other number
E0153
Watercolour portrait of Sarah Siddons by Edmund Scott, c.1800. The drawing appears to be unfinished as there is an uncoloured pencil sketch of what looks like a bonnet above her head. Was in the collection of Michael Harvard in 1962.
