An Unknown Man
Portrait Miniature
1660-1661 (painted)
1660-1661 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Portrait, turned to left and looking to front, the sitter wearing a white collar. Features firmly hatched in brown and sanguine shadowed with grey, blended with gouache over a thin carnation ground; hair and costume washed and hatched with gouache and heightened with gold; background unevenly hatched in blue-grey over a pale grey wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame
Modern copper electro-gilt oval locket, with plain flat back; the sides straight with a half-round moulding and a rolled-edge bezel holding the flat glass by its bevelled edge; an oval loop, cast, with two projections on each side and a ball finial; flat bevelled glass; heavily worn, the copper showing through the gilding in places.
Frame
Modern copper electro-gilt oval locket, with plain flat back; the sides straight with a half-round moulding and a rolled-edge bezel holding the flat glass by its bevelled edge; an oval loop, cast, with two projections on each side and a ball finial; flat bevelled glass; heavily worn, the copper showing through the gilding in places.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | An Unknown Man (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of an unknown man. Watercolour on vellum by Samuel Cooper, 1660-1661. |
| Physical description | Portrait, turned to left and looking to front, the sitter wearing a white collar. Features firmly hatched in brown and sanguine shadowed with grey, blended with gouache over a thin carnation ground; hair and costume washed and hatched with gouache and heightened with gold; background unevenly hatched in blue-grey over a pale grey wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. Frame Modern copper electro-gilt oval locket, with plain flat back; the sides straight with a half-round moulding and a rolled-edge bezel holding the flat glass by its bevelled edge; an oval loop, cast, with two projections on each side and a ball finial; flat bevelled glass; heavily worn, the copper showing through the gilding in places. |
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| Content description | Oval portrait miniature of a man with shoulder length hair. |
| Styles | |
| Production type | Unique |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by John Jones |
| Object history | Provenance: By 1865, John Jones; by him bequeathed to the Museum, 1882. |
| Subject 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 | 632-1882 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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