William Wordsworth

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	Painting, pencil drawing and watercolour, portrait, William Wordsworth, by Henry Edridge, 1806. Head and shoulders portrait of William Wordsworth aged 36, looking to the left. Probably drawn in May 1806 while Wordsworth was a guest of Sir George Beaumont in London. As a society painter, Edridge has tidied up Wordsworth's strong but inelegant features, producing the poet who would have been at home in the drawing-rooms of Jane Austen. It was the nose - rendered adequately Roman by Haydon and Chantry - that had chiefly to be remodelled.
	inscription:-	ink printed on mount William Wordsworth / H. Edridge, A.R.A / 1805
	wxh, image:-	125x155mm

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