An Unknown Woman
Portrait Miniature
1650-1650 (painted)
1650-1650 (painted)
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Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, to front and wearing a high white collar. Features softly hatched and stippled in brown and sanguine, with some blue-green shadow hatched around the chin, jaw and under the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched in darker colour and heightened with grey; cap in dark grey wash hatched in black; collar in washes of grey and white with thick white heightening; dress in dark grey wash hatched in black; background a brown wash; a gold marginal strip; on vellum put down on pasteboard.
Frame: A silver-gilt locket, possibly original; the hanger removed; set in a turned oval frame of ebonised mahogany.
Frame: A silver-gilt locket, possibly original; the hanger removed; set in a turned oval frame of ebonised mahogany.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | An Unknown Woman (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on pasteboard |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of an unknown woman, watercolour on vellum, probably English school, 1650-1660. |
| Physical description | Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, to front and wearing a high white collar. Features softly hatched and stippled in brown and sanguine, with some blue-green shadow hatched around the chin, jaw and under the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched in darker colour and heightened with grey; cap in dark grey wash hatched in black; collar in washes of grey and white with thick white heightening; dress in dark grey wash hatched in black; background a brown wash; a gold marginal strip; on vellum put down on pasteboard. Frame: A silver-gilt locket, possibly original; the hanger removed; set in a turned oval frame of ebonised mahogany. |
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| Content description | Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, facing front and wearing a high white collar. |
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| Credit line | Alan Evans Bequest, given by the National Gallery |
| Object history | Provenance: Alan Evans, by whom bequeathed to the National Gallery, 1974; placed on indeterminate loan at the V&A. The miniature was not part of the Wallop Loan, and may have been part of Alan Evans's own small initial collection which, though concentrating on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, seems to have included some earlier works. |
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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 | EVANS.12 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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