Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland
Portrait Miniature
1665-1670 (painted)
1665-1670 (painted)
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Unfinished portrait vignette, head in outline, to right and looking to front. Features finely hatched in sanguine with some very tentative shadowing in grey; the eyes in opaque grey; on a very pale carnation ground; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
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Title | Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
Brief description | Portrait miniature, unfinished, of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland. Watercolour on vellum by Samuel Cooper, 1665-1670 |
Physical description | Unfinished portrait vignette, head in outline, to right and looking to front. Features finely hatched in sanguine with some very tentative shadowing in grey; the eyes in opaque grey; on a very pale carnation ground; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. |
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Content description | Portrait in outline of a woman's head. |
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Production type | Unique |
Marks and inscriptions | 'Cooper / Ds Cleveland' (Inscribed on the back in graphite) |
Object history | Provenance: Presumably acquired from Cooper's estate by the Rosses, or perhaps by Priestman (see Rosse, Cat. No. 143) and perhaps in the Michael Rosse sale, 2 April 1 723; eventually purchased by Edwin [Durning] Lawrence before 1862, and sold by him to the Museum for £525 in 1892. |
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Accession number | 446-1892 |
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Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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