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Artist
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966
Sitter
George Bernard Shaw, 26 July 1856 - 02 Nov 1950
Date
August 1, 1904
Type
Photograph
Medium
Photogravure
Dimensions
Image: 20.8 × 15.6 cm (8 3/16 × 6 1/8")
Sheet: 22.5 × 17 cm (8 7/8 × 6 11/16")
Mount: 30.8 × 22.3 cm (12 1/8 × 8 3/4")
Book open: 31.5 × 49.5 × 2 cm (12 3/8 × 19 1/2 × 13/16")
Book closed: 31.5 × 24.5 × 2.7 cm (12 3/8 × 9 5/8 × 1 1/16")
Topic
Interior
Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache
Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Beard
George Bernard Shaw: Male
George Bernard Shaw: Literature\Writer\Novelist
George Bernard Shaw: Literature\Writer\Playwright
George Bernard Shaw: Nobel Prize
Portrait
Place
United Kingdom\England\Hertfordshire\Welwyn Garden City
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
