Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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	Drawing, pencil, portrait, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by George Dance, 1804. Head and shoulders, facing left. Presumably commissioned by Sir George Beaumont, as was James Northcote's oil of Coleridge, made a few days later on 25-26 March. Coleridge, who was waiting in London to sail for the Mediterranean in search of a warmer climate and better health, had just suffered what he termed on the 20th 'a diarrhea of incessant fury'. It was feared he might die abroad, and the portraits show the wish of his friend and admirer to preserve his likeness.
	inscription:-	ms, pencil bottom right of image Geo. Dance / March 21st 1804
	wxh, image:-	198x162mm

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