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POLIDORI (John W.; 1795-1821, physician and writer) Side portrait in pencil of Edmund Finch (1789-1831), head and shoulders, signed with initials, and annotated to the reverse dated 1818, 12 x 10cm Note: A rare drawing by Byron's physician and the author of 'The Vampyre'. After returning to England, Polidori set himself up in a medical practice in Norwich in 1817. This may be a portrait of the brewer Edmund Rolfe Finch, sometime president of the Norfolk and Norwich Literary Institution.

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