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Margaret Louisa Herschel
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English: Study of a nose, mouth and chin

This sketch was done by Louisa Herschel when she was 15 or 16 years old. It would probably have been made from a plaster model of a statue provided by her drawing tutor. It is signed by the artist and dated.

Louisa, as she was known to the family, was John and Margaret's 4th child (3rd daughter) and was considered by the rest of the family to be their most accomplished artist. This is one of a series of drawings she, alongside her brothers and sisters, would have done as part of her artistic education.

The Herschel daughters, and the sons before they went away to school, recieved a very intensive education at home with lessons from their mother, their father, a series of governesses and a number of specialist external tutors.

While we do not have records for every year of their childhood, there does exist (in a private collection) Louisa's diary for the year 1844 and from this we can see that in 1844 those children still at home had lessons in drawing with a tutor named Mr de la Cours who came to the house every Monday.

Study of the nose, mouth and chin of a human figure
Date 1850
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions Sheet: 241 x 267 mm
Notes Box Title: Herschel Collection 1.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/145941
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id number: PAH5994
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Herschel family

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