A Woman, perhaps Mary Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of York
Portrait Miniature
ca.1675 (painted)
ca.1675 (painted)
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Portrait of a woman, half-length, to front. Features diagonally hatched in brown with blue shading, touches of red in the lips and eyes, with blue, dark blue and touches of white for the highlights in the eyes, on a pale yellowish carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, modelled in darker colour and with the lights in grey-blue gouache; chemise in pale brown wash, modelled in thick white; dress in brown wash, modelled in darker colour and with the lights in pale gouache; cloak in blue wash modelled in darker colour; background a solid brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame: Seventeenth-century oval gold locket, with concave back enamelled with a reversed cypher beneath a ducal coronet in black on a white ground; the sides a shallow V-section with a scallop moulding to the bezel, which holds a flat glass by its bevelled edge; two flat curving wires are soldered top and bottom, following the curve of the locket, as slides through which a ribbon would be passed.
Frame: Seventeenth-century oval gold locket, with concave back enamelled with a reversed cypher beneath a ducal coronet in black on a white ground; the sides a shallow V-section with a scallop moulding to the bezel, which holds a flat glass by its bevelled edge; two flat curving wires are soldered top and bottom, following the curve of the locket, as slides through which a ribbon would be passed.
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Title | A Woman, perhaps Mary Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of York (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of a woman, perhaps Mary Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of York, watercolour on vellum by Susannah-Penelope Rosse, ca.1675. |
Physical description | Portrait of a woman, half-length, to front. Features diagonally hatched in brown with blue shading, touches of red in the lips and eyes, with blue, dark blue and touches of white for the highlights in the eyes, on a pale yellowish carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, modelled in darker colour and with the lights in grey-blue gouache; chemise in pale brown wash, modelled in thick white; dress in brown wash, modelled in darker colour and with the lights in pale gouache; cloak in blue wash modelled in darker colour; background a solid brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. Frame: Seventeenth-century oval gold locket, with concave back enamelled with a reversed cypher beneath a ducal coronet in black on a white ground; the sides a shallow V-section with a scallop moulding to the bezel, which holds a flat glass by its bevelled edge; two flat curving wires are soldered top and bottom, following the curve of the locket, as slides through which a ribbon would be passed. |
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Content description | Portrait of a woman, facing front. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'SPR' (Signed in gold, lower centre left) |
Object history | Provenance: Mrs E M Thompson, from whom purchased by private treaty, 1919. |
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Accession number | P.38-1919 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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