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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait at age 73 1738 etching British Museum |
These Features must in Silent Darkness Rot
No Reason why my Heart should be Forgot
Jonathan Richardson Senior etched this couplet onto the plate of the self-portrait above, made in 1738 when he was 73. Toward the end of his life, Richardson clearly became preoccupied with recording his own heavy serious face. He must have wished for posterity to look at it, but what did he expect posterity to find there?
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait at age 73 1738 etching British Museum |
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait at age 63 1728 drawing on paper British Museum |
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait at age 68 1733 drawing on paper British Museum |
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait at age 69 1734 drawing on vellum British Museum |
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait at age 70 1735 drawing on vellum British Museum |
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait at age 68 1733 drawing on paper British Museum |
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait, based on a painting of 1692 (age 25) 1734-35 drawing on vellum British Museum |
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait at age 40 (in 1707) 1730s drawing on vellum British Museum |
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait at age 75 ca. 1740 drawing on paper British Museum |
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait 18th century drawing on paper British Museum |
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait 18th century drawing on paper British Museum |
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait ca. 1730-35 drawing on paper Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self-portrait 18th century drawing on vellum British Museum |