Portrait of Professor Thomas Huxley (Primary Title)

Alphonse Legros, French, 1837 - 1911 (Artist)

ca. 1880–1890
French
Works On Paper
Prints
etching with brown and black ink on brown wove paper (heavily touched proof)
Sheet: 16 11/16 × 12 3/8 in. (42.39 × 31.43 cm)
Plate: 13 11/16 × 9 9/16 in. (34.77 × 24.29 cm)
2012.421
Not on view
Signed in ink lower right: A Legros
Inscribed in graphite on verso: "Portrait of Professor Huxley/ Lightly sketched in etching and/ finished in sepia./ Only two proofs of the plate were taken/ and it was then destroyed - or rather lost/ in a London omnibus"
Gift of Frank Raysor

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