Self-Portrait

1857

Lewis Carroll

Associated Names
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

Artist, British, 1832 - 1898

The image shows a man from the waist up, leaning in an open window frame of an old brick building with wooden panels. He has one leg bent and resting on the window ledge, with his arms crossed in front of him holding a small object resembling a bowler hat. The man has a slender face with prominent cheekbones, a faint smile, and medium-length hair combed back. He is wearing a dark suit with a long coat, waistcoat, and bow tie, over a light-colored shirt. Climbing plants are visible on the brick wall, and the partly open window reveals a dimly lit interior.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen silver print

  • Credit Line

    Diana and Mallory Walker Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 10.3 × 7.7 cm (4 1/16 × 3 1/16 in.)
    mount: 29.6 × 23.1 cm (11 5/8 × 9 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.120.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie's, London, 1 November 1990); (Charles Schwartz, Ltd., New York), 1990; NGA purchase, 2013.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1998

  • Before the Lens: Images of the Imagemakers from the Charles Schwartz Collection, New Hampshire Institute of Art, 1998.

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, center below print on mount in brown-black ink: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson / (Lewis Carroll); on verso, by unknown hand, at top center in brown ink: Family Group 1872; [family portrait pasted to board, with names inscribed of those pictured / two portraits, each of a young boy with names and 1876 date inscribed]

Wikidata ID

Q64157441

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