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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.
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