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Title:
Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
Object name(s):
Picture
Collection:
Senate House Library
Comments:
Best known as an energetic advocate for the belief that Sir Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays, Durning-Lawrence (187-1914) amassed the books in the Durning-Lawrence Library at the University of London. These include the first four folios of Shakespeare and are the Library's first major literary special collection. Signed portrait in gilt gesso frame.
Dimension:
113 x 83 cm
Material:
oil on canvas
Normal location:
Senate House
Object history note:
Gift, Theodora Durning-Lawrence (1931), from the possession of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence. Received with rest of Durning-Lawrence furniture.
Object name:
Picture
Object number:
PO-0104
Object production date:
?early 20th cent.
Object production person:
Emslie, Alfred Edward
Person's association:
Artist
Person's birth date:
1848-1918
Person's gender:
M
Person's nationality:
English

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/64d0f031-24cc-3c0c-9278-a67e2e0389a5

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/64d0f031-24cc-3c0c-9278-a67e2e0389a5, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC

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