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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.
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