Antedating of "self-portrait"

[Hugo]

"self-portrait" (OED: 1831)

Seeing as "selfie" is Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year and I already provided the earliest 2002 quotation, let's look at "self-portrait". :)

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November 1821, letter in The Country constitutional guardian and literary magazine, Vol. 1, published 1822, "Sir Robert Wilson, And His Correspondence", page 44:

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Now, under such circumstances, a reasonable man, and a man so conscious of his innocence, so proud of his reputation, and such a good self-portrait painter too, would surely have referred the cause of grievance to the source from whence it arose--but no : " To be backed by the electors of Southwark was a good bolster."
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Also! See the same page!!!! for extreme use of exclamation marks!!!!!!!

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RYAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA44&dq=%22self-portrait%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_VaLUuHPCaqC4AT-14GgBQ&redir_esc=y#v=thumbnail&q=%22self-portrait%22%20&f=false

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Hugo

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