A Man, perhaps Ferdinand Ill, Holy Roman Emperor
Portrait Miniature
1628-1630 (painted)
1628-1630 (painted)
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Portrait, head and shoulders, looking to front and wearing a high lace collar. Features hatched finely in brown and sanguine with grey shadow, over a pale creamy carnation ground; hair washed in brown and hatched in black, the lights in gouache; costume in black wash with collar in thick white; background a blue wash, hatched and shaded in violet and grey; on vellum put down on a playing card (parts of five spades); a gold marginal strip painted on the card.
Frame: Set in the obverse of two silver thalers, divided and threaded to screw together; the portrait heads are of John George I, Elector of Saxony (ruled 1611-56) and of Christian Minden, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg (ruled 1599-1633), lettered: (i) IOHAN: GEORG: D.G. DVX SAX: IVL. CLIV: ET MONTI; (ii) CHRISTIANUS. D:G. EL. EP. MIND: DUX. BR. ET. LU. Inside the latter, scratched: 1/101.25.
Frame: Set in the obverse of two silver thalers, divided and threaded to screw together; the portrait heads are of John George I, Elector of Saxony (ruled 1611-56) and of Christian Minden, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg (ruled 1599-1633), lettered: (i) IOHAN: GEORG: D.G. DVX SAX: IVL. CLIV: ET MONTI; (ii) CHRISTIANUS. D:G. EL. EP. MIND: DUX. BR. ET. LU. Inside the latter, scratched: 1/101.25.
Object details
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Title | A Man, perhaps Ferdinand Ill, Holy Roman Emperor (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a playing card |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of a man, perhaps the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, watercolour on vellum, painted by Alexander Cooper, 1628-1630. |
Physical description | Portrait, head and shoulders, looking to front and wearing a high lace collar. Features hatched finely in brown and sanguine with grey shadow, over a pale creamy carnation ground; hair washed in brown and hatched in black, the lights in gouache; costume in black wash with collar in thick white; background a blue wash, hatched and shaded in violet and grey; on vellum put down on a playing card (parts of five spades); a gold marginal strip painted on the card. Frame: Set in the obverse of two silver thalers, divided and threaded to screw together; the portrait heads are of John George I, Elector of Saxony (ruled 1611-56) and of Christian Minden, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg (ruled 1599-1633), lettered: (i) IOHAN: GEORG: D.G. DVX SAX: IVL. CLIV: ET MONTI; (ii) CHRISTIANUS. D:G. EL. EP. MIND: DUX. BR. ET. LU. Inside the latter, scratched: 1/101.25. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'AC' (Signed in gold, lower left) |
Credit line | Bequeathed by Thomas Hugh Cobb |
Object history | Provenance: Thomas Hugh Cobb, by whom bequeathed to the Museum, September 1944. |
Production | It is unclear if this miniature was painted in England or when the artist was on the Continent in the 1630s. |
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Accession number | P.6:1-1944 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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