An Unknown Man
Portrait Miniature
ca.1700 (painted)
ca.1700 (painted)
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Portrait sketch, unfinished with some details in outline, of a man depicted half-length, turned to right, looking to front, wearing armour and holding a baton in his right hand. Features minutely hatched in grey wash directly on the vellum; the hair, the sitter's right arm and part of the armour and cloak washed and hatched in the same grey; the rest of the figure indicated lightly in free strokes of graphite; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame: Formerly loosely attached in the The Pocket Book (see Cat. No. 87[460-1892]); presently set within an oval window of a brown-coloured mount, with a card backing attached to the glass with gold-beater's skin."
Frame: Formerly loosely attached in the The Pocket Book (see Cat. No. 87[460-1892]); presently set within an oval window of a brown-coloured mount, with a card backing attached to the glass with gold-beater's skin."
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| 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, English school, ca.1700. |
| Physical description | Portrait sketch, unfinished with some details in outline, of a man depicted half-length, turned to right, looking to front, wearing armour and holding a baton in his right hand. Features minutely hatched in grey wash directly on the vellum; the hair, the sitter's right arm and part of the armour and cloak washed and hatched in the same grey; the rest of the figure indicated lightly in free strokes of graphite; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. Frame: Formerly loosely attached in the The Pocket Book (see Cat. No. 87[460-1892]); presently set within an oval window of a brown-coloured mount, with a card backing attached to the glass with gold-beater's skin." |
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| Content description | Portrait, unfinished, of a man holding a baton and wearing armour, turned to right. |
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| Object history | This miniature was probably produced as a sketch of a portrait as an aide-mémoire. 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 | 458-1892 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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