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WD148
- Record Id:
- 032-003267953
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003267953
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x001132
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD148
- Title:
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Portrait of a young man; head and shoulders, looking half-left; wearing a black tie with a red tie-pin. Artist(s): Swinton, James Rennie (1816-1888)
- Scope & Content:
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Portrait of a young man; head and shoulders, looking half-left; wearing a black tie with a red tie-pin. 1858.
Signed on front in pencil: ‘James R. Swinton 1858.’
Oval, pastel; 25.5 by 21.5 ins.
Purchased from Mrs. Claire Fraser, 17 May 1960, together with WD2226 and 2227 and Mss Eur E258.
Note: Although uninscribed, it seems possible that this is a family portrait of Simon James Gordon Fraser (born 1824), son of Simon Fraser (1803-57) and father-in-law of Mrs. Claire Fraser, former owner of this portrait. On 20 January 1854 Simon Fraser wrote from Delhi to his son John (Simon J.G. Fraser's younger brother) urging him to have his portrait made. 'I also wish you to sit for a lifesized portrait to Richmond in style and size to correspond with that one of mine your Uncle Charles has in crayons. I shall shortly ask Simon to sit for his likeness but as the charge is heavy I must have one at a time.' Since the present picture was made four years after this letter was written, it is perhaps the portrait of Simon which his father had contemplated for later execution. For other pictures of the Fraser family, see Lowes Cato Dickinson.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003267953
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003267953
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1858
- End Date:
- 1858
- Date Range:
- 1858
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pastel
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume I-II, 637
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Swinton, James Rennie, 1816-1888
- Subjects:
- Portraits