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Portrait of Bishop Owen Emeric Vidal by James Harwood. Black, white and coloured chalks on warm, buff–toned paper subsequently laid to canvas. The sheet is a moderately heavy, cream–buff drawing paper with a fine mechanical wove rather than laid pattern—common in mid-nineteenth-century cartridge papers marketed by Rowney and Winsor \ Newton.
46 (a) Before treatment (archival vendor photograph) .53 (b) After treatment (Current condition, 2025) Owen Emeric Vidal by James Harwood, side-by-side comparison before and after the 2022–23 conservation campaign. 0.2em Overall dirt film and a grey, nicotine-tone veil dulled the warm bistre background; white highlights in the lawn sleeves appeared chalky-pink. Foxing — scattered pale rust spots, most conspicuous in the lower margin and within the sitter's left sleeve.
The lower–left corner of the present drawing carries a neat graphite inscription that reads "Jas Harwood ft 1852" . Exactly the same wording appears on other finished pastel portraits that James Harwood sent to the Royal Academy. The year tallies with the Academy catalogue for 1853 (no.
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