An Unknown Woman
Portrait Miniature
1660s (painted)
1660s (painted)
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Unfinished portrait of a woman, bust, to right, in an oval border. Features boldly hatched in brown and sanguine with red in the lips and in the corners of the eyes; on a warm creamy carnation ground; a thin white wash over the whole area of the oval, and a thicker white preparatory wash for the collar; hair in dark brown hatches with some black over a brown wash; cap in black and grey wash; a touch of pale blue in the ear-ring and the shading of the collar; a blue wash in the background; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
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| Object type | |
| Title | An Unknown Woman (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature, unfinished, of an unknown woman. Watercolour on vellum by Samuel Cooper, 1660s. |
| Physical description | Unfinished portrait of a woman, bust, to right, in an oval border. Features boldly hatched in brown and sanguine with red in the lips and in the corners of the eyes; on a warm creamy carnation ground; a thin white wash over the whole area of the oval, and a thicker white preparatory wash for the collar; hair in dark brown hatches with some black over a brown wash; cap in black and grey wash; a touch of pale blue in the ear-ring and the shading of the collar; a blue wash in the background; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. |
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| Content description | Miniature portrait bust of a middle-aged woman. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| 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 and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 454-1892 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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