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A Low Comedian. "Keep your eye on your Father" [Henry Richard Harwood]

1874
Tom Durkin and The Weekly Times (publisher)

from the series ‘Masks and Faces’
lithograph on paper (sheet: 36.0 cm x 23.5 cm)
A Low Comedian.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018

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Artist and subject

Tom Durkin (age 21 in 1874)

The Weekly Times

Henry Richard Harwood (age 44 in 1874)

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