A Woman, presumably a self-portrait of Susannah-Penelope Rosse
Portrait Miniature
ca.1680 (painted)
ca.1680 (painted)
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Portrait of a woman, half-length, nearly right profile, looking to front. Features softly hatched in brown and sanguine, shadowed with blue and with some white partly blended in, black in the eyes, red in the lips, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, worked over with very dark brown and with the lights in grey and ochre gouache; dress indicated in brown wash; background a cloudy opaque grey-blue wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
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| Title | A Woman, presumably a self-portrait of Susannah-Penelope Rosse (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of a woman, presumably a self portrait by Susannah-Penelope Rosse, watercolour on vellum, ca.1680. |
| Physical description | Portrait of a woman, half-length, nearly right profile, looking to front. Features softly hatched in brown and sanguine, shadowed with blue and with some white partly blended in, black in the eyes, red in the lips, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, worked over with very dark brown and with the lights in grey and ochre gouache; dress indicated in brown wash; background a cloudy opaque grey-blue wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. |
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| Content description | Portrait of a woman, turned to right, looking to front. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Mrs Rosse' (Inscribed faintly in metal-point on the back) |
| 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 1723; eventually purchased by Edwin [Durning] Lawrence before 1862, and sold by him to the Museum for £525 in 1892 |
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| Bibliographic reference | Murdoch, John. Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the Collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London: The Stationery Office in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1997.
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| Accession number | 451-1892 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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