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Catherine Howard, Lady d' Aubigny, and later Lady Newburgh

Portrait Miniature
1638-1640 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Portrait, half-length, turned to right and looking to front; the sitter is touching a bouquet of flowers with her right hand. Features in very delicate stipple of brown, sanguine, yellow and blue, blended into smooth gouache over a warm carnation ground; the hair in pale brown wash, lined with darker colour and with broad, soft gouache lights; the dress in opaque blue wash, modelled with hatching in darker colour and with the lights in white; cuff of the chemise in very pale brown wash modelled and heightened in white; flowers and shawl in transparent washes, hatched with darker colour and with the lights partly taken out and partly done in white; the jewellery picked out with metallic silver and the pearls in white over pale brown wash; background in brown wash hatched in darker colour for the shaded area; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: A late nineteenth-century gilt-brass, oval composite frame, the outer rim sloping up to a deep channel which is filled by a milled half-round fillet in the middle, then descending in a concave slope with a cast and chased rose-and-tulip motif repeating with scrolling foliate ornament; the inner ring soldered to the outer, composed of a plain concave border surrounding a narrow field with a repeated palm motif. The latter constitutes the rebate, which holds a shallowly convex glass; a simple brass ring soldered to the back at the top, with a ring-hanger fitted to it; the whole push-fitted to a heavy, plain oval box back, constructed to fit into a velvet-covered cushion mount in a larger frame, which is missing.


Object details

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Object type
TitleCatherine Howard, Lady d' Aubigny, and later Lady Newburgh (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolur on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Brief description
Portrait miniature of Catherine Howard, Lady d'Aubigny, watercolour on vellum, painted by John Hoskins, after Van Dyck, 1638-1640.
Physical description
Portrait, half-length, turned to right and looking to front; the sitter is touching a bouquet of flowers with her right hand. Features in very delicate stipple of brown, sanguine, yellow and blue, blended into smooth gouache over a warm carnation ground; the hair in pale brown wash, lined with darker colour and with broad, soft gouache lights; the dress in opaque blue wash, modelled with hatching in darker colour and with the lights in white; cuff of the chemise in very pale brown wash modelled and heightened in white; flowers and shawl in transparent washes, hatched with darker colour and with the lights partly taken out and partly done in white; the jewellery picked out with metallic silver and the pearls in white over pale brown wash; background in brown wash hatched in darker colour for the shaded area; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: A late nineteenth-century gilt-brass, oval composite frame, the outer rim sloping up to a deep channel which is filled by a milled half-round fillet in the middle, then descending in a concave slope with a cast and chased rose-and-tulip motif repeating with scrolling foliate ornament; the inner ring soldered to the outer, composed of a plain concave border surrounding a narrow field with a repeated palm motif. The latter constitutes the rebate, which holds a shallowly convex glass; a simple brass ring soldered to the back at the top, with a ring-hanger fitted to it; the whole push-fitted to a heavy, plain oval box back, constructed to fit into a velvet-covered cushion mount in a larger frame, which is missing.
Dimensions
  • Height: 104cm
  • Width: 86cm
Dimensions taken from John Murdoch Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997.
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
'2/Richmond' (Inscribed on the back in graphite by a late nineteenth-century hand)
Credit line
Salting Bequest
Object history
Provenance: Said by Pfungst (1) to have been sold from the Royal Collection at Windsor; acquired from an unknown source by George Salting (no. 4675), and by him bequeathed to the Museum, 1910.(2)
Subjects depicted
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.157-1910

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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