Dean Swift
1797
From the collection of Catholic University of Leuven
1797
From the collection of Catholic University of Leuven
Dominant colour
Dean Swift is a 1797 by John Thurston, a Romanticism work, held at Catholic University of Leuven.
This shows a serious man in a dark coat and white wig. A small label under his chin reads "DEAN SWIFT." He looks tired, almost cross. The drawing started as a painting by P. Pelham. An engraver named J. Hopwood turned it into this print in 1797. Cooke published it the same year. Check out more portraits by the artist at Museum of Ethnography.
John Thurston made crisp pencil portraits of British notables in the 1790s. His 1797 Drawing shows Dean Swift, the satirist in three-quarter view, every ruffled cuff and ink-stained finger outlined with disciplined…
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