Self-portrait, aged 21

Sitter Sir William Blake Richmond British

ca. 1863

Not on view

One of only two known etchings by the artist, this work is based on a self-portrait watercolor (2016.588). On the brink of adulthood, the serious young man repeated a pose that his father, the successful artist George Richmond, had used in a self-portrait miniature painted when he too was twenty-one.

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Title: Self-portrait, aged 21
Artist: Sir William Blake Richmond (British, London 1842–1921 London)
Sitter: Sir William Blake Richmond (British, London 1842–1921 London)
Date: ca. 1863
Medium: Etching on chine collé
Dimensions: Plate: 9 1/4 × 6 in. (23.5 × 15.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 13/16 in. (32.7 × 24.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Andrew Clayton-Payne, 2016
Object Number: 2016.385
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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