My Father Rosse
Portrait Miniature
ca.1677 (painted)
ca.1677 (painted)
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Portrait of a man, turned slightly to right, eyes to front and wearing a patterned lace neckcloth. Features boldly hatched in brown and sanguine, with blue-grey shadows and touches of white, black in the eyes and red in the lips, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, lined with darker colour, and with grey and pale brown gouache lights; cravat in pale brown wash, modelled in white, and the lights in white with touches of black; robe in brown wash, modelled in darker colour and red-brown; landscape and sky background in yellow, blue and grey-brown gouache; to the left a solid dark brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of Christopher Rosse, watercolour on vellum by Susannah-Penelope Rosse, ca.1677. |
| Physical description | Portrait of a man, turned slightly to right, eyes to front and wearing a patterned lace neckcloth. Features boldly hatched in brown and sanguine, with blue-grey shadows and touches of white, black in the eyes and red in the lips, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, lined with darker colour, and with grey and pale brown gouache lights; cravat in pale brown wash, modelled in white, and the lights in white with touches of black; robe in brown wash, modelled in darker colour and red-brown; landscape and sky background in yellow, blue and grey-brown gouache; to the left a solid dark brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. |
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| Content description | Portrait of a man, turned slightly to right, wearing a neckcloth, a landscape in background. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'My Father / Rosse' (Inscribed in graphite on the back; and above, truncated by the cutting of the card to the oval, the descending loop of (possibly) the long 5 in the rtist's signature or of her initials. ) |
| Object history | Provenance: Presumably some early history shared with the Coopers (Cat. Nos 88-91), in the Rosse or Priestman families; eventually purchased by Edwin [Durning] Lawrence before 1862, and sold by him to the Museum, 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 | 456-1892 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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