Oxford Characters
Artwork Details
- Title: Oxford Characters
- Author: Frederick York Powell (British, Bloomsbury, London 1850–1904 Oxford)
- Illustrator: William Rothenstein (British, Bradford, Yorkshire 1872–1945 Far Oakridge, Gloucestershire)
- Printer: Thomas Way (British, London 1837–1915 London)
- Dedicatee: Frederick York Powell (British, Bloomsbury, London 1850–1904 Oxford)
- Sitter: Sir Henry Wentworth Acland (British, Broadclyst, Devon 1815–1900 Oxford)
- Sitter: William Alfred Littledale Fletcher (British, 1869–1919)
- Sitter: Robinson Ellis (British, Kent 1834–1913 Oxford)
- Sitter: Viscount St. Cyres (British, active ca. 1896)
- Sitter: William Richard Morfill (British, Kent 1834–1909 Oxford)
- Sitter: Charles Burgess Fry (British, Croydon, Surrey 1872–1956 London)
- Sitter: Friedrich Max Müller (German, Dessau 1823–1900 Oxford)
- Sitter: William Lygon (British, London 1872–1938 New York)
- Sitter: Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (British, Roxburghshire, Scotland 1837–1915 Oxford)
- Sitter: J. Conway-Rees (British, active 1893–96)
- Sitter: Walter Horatio Pater (British, London 1839–1894 Oxford)
- Sitter: Frederick William Bussell (British, 1862–1944)
- Sitter: David Samuel Margoliouth (British, London 1858–1940 London)
- Sitter: Max Beerbohm (British, London 1872–1956 Rapallo)
- Sitter: Ingram Bywater (British, London 1840–1914 London)
- Sitter: Hilaire Belloc (British (born France), La Celle-Saint-Cloud 1870–1953 Guildford, Surrey)
- Sitter: Rev. (Charles) Henry Olive Daniel (British, Wareham, Dorset 1836–1919 Oddington, Gloucestershire)
- Sitter: Hartwell de la Garde Grissell (British, 1839–1907)
- Sitter: Sir (Edwin) Ray Lankester (British, London 1847–1929 London)
- Sitter: James Hearn (British, active ca. 1896)
- Sitter: Sir John Scott Burdon Sanderson, Baronet (British, Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1828–1905 Oxford)
- Sitter: Arthur Sidgwick (British, Skipton, North Yorkshire 1840–1920 Oxford)
- Sitter: Joseph Wells (British, active ca. 1896)
- Sitter: Frederick York Powell (British, Bloomsbury, London 1850–1904 Oxford)
- Publisher: John Lane (London)
- Publisher: R. H. Russell & Son (New York, NY)
- Printer: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. (Edinburgh and London)
- Date: 1896
- Medium: Illustrations: lithographs
- Dimensions: 18 1/8 x 12 3/16 x 3/4 in. (46 x 31 x 1.9 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
- Object Number: 21.36.54
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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