Portrait of Edward Gibbon
Portrait of Edward Gibbon (1737-1794); full length, holding walking stick, wearing queue wig and frock coat; seated in a garden in Lausanne with mountains behind. Gibbon was a British historian and Member of Parliament. His most well-known work was 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
History note: Gibbon's librarian, the Swiss theologian Jean-David-Paul-Étienne Lavade (d.1834); 'Mons. Greathed No. 9 Boulevard du roe 3 mai 1822' (graphite inscription on the verso of the drawing), possibly Edward Harris Greathed (1770-1840) of Udden House, near Wimborne, Dorset, residing latterly in Versailles and Switzerland
Bequeathed by John Vaughan Hart, 2020
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2020) by Hart, John Vaughan
18th Century
Circa
1786
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Circa
1789
Made during Gibbon's last stay in Lausanne
Support
composed of
paper
Sheet
Height 180 mm
Width 130 mm
Drawing : Graphite with watercolour on paper
Inscription present: Underlined
Accession number: PD.5-2020
Primary reference Number: 241898
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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