A Man, called Richard Price
Portrait Miniature
1670-1673 (painted)
1670-1673 (painted)
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Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to right, looking to front and wearing a patterned lace neckcloth and a curled wig. Features in brown and sanguine with some black, with blue-grey and blue for the shadows, and yellow with white heightening, on a very pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and touched with darker, colour especially in the curls, and with touches of pale gouache heightening; cravat in pale grey, modelled with darker colour and white; mantle in brown with gold mixed into the pigment and heightened further with gold; robe in blue, modelled with black and pale grey; background to the left a dense, dark brown wash, and to the right a landscape and sky in opaque blue, grey, white, green and ochre; on vellum put down on modern card.
Frame: Seventeenth-century gold locket, the convex back and deeply grooved sides flaring out to the bezel, which holds the shallowly convex glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of tear-drop form made from wire of squared section, channelled down the middle, bifurcating into a double loop down the back of the locket and rising as a flat ribbon to form two diminishing spirals of six turns. A nineteenth-century engraved inscription on the back: Richard Price Esq.
Frame: Seventeenth-century gold locket, the convex back and deeply grooved sides flaring out to the bezel, which holds the shallowly convex glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of tear-drop form made from wire of squared section, channelled down the middle, bifurcating into a double loop down the back of the locket and rising as a flat ribbon to form two diminishing spirals of six turns. A nineteenth-century engraved inscription on the back: Richard Price Esq.
Object details
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Title | A Man, called Richard Price (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on modern card |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of a man, called Richard Price, watercolour on vellum by Thomas Flatman, 1670-1673. |
Physical description | Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to right, looking to front and wearing a patterned lace neckcloth and a curled wig. Features in brown and sanguine with some black, with blue-grey and blue for the shadows, and yellow with white heightening, on a very pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and touched with darker, colour especially in the curls, and with touches of pale gouache heightening; cravat in pale grey, modelled with darker colour and white; mantle in brown with gold mixed into the pigment and heightened further with gold; robe in blue, modelled with black and pale grey; background to the left a dense, dark brown wash, and to the right a landscape and sky in opaque blue, grey, white, green and ochre; on vellum put down on modern card. Frame: Seventeenth-century gold locket, the convex back and deeply grooved sides flaring out to the bezel, which holds the shallowly convex glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of tear-drop form made from wire of squared section, channelled down the middle, bifurcating into a double loop down the back of the locket and rising as a flat ribbon to form two diminishing spirals of six turns. A nineteenth-century engraved inscription on the back: Richard Price Esq. |
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Content description | Portrait of a man wearing a wig and patterned lace neckcloth, a landscape in the right background. |
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Credit line | Bequeathed by George Salting |
Object history | Provenance: George Salting, acquired by him from an unrecorded source, and by him bequeathed to the Museum, 1910. |
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Bibliographic reference | Murdoch, John. Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997. |
Collection | |
Accession number | P.107-1910 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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