An Unknown Man
Portrait Miniature
1670-1675 (painted)
1670-1675 (painted)
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Portrait of a man, half-length, turned to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a neckcloth tied in a bow, long wig and suit of armour; on the left is a baton and a helmet with plumes. Features freely hatched in brown and sanguine, with black in the eyes and facial hair and touches of white for the eyes and tip of the nose, on a pale creamy carnation ground; hair in brown wash, deeply hatched in gummy black and grey with ochre lights; cravat in impasted white over a grey wash; armour, landscape background and accoutrements in appropriate opaque washes, hatched with darker colour and heightened with white; sash in lake washed wet-in-wet; a black marginal strip; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table- book.
Frame: Tortoiseshell and black oak, perhaps late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century. The back board with a label of William Dodds, Carver Gilder and Glass Manufacturer, of 5 St Martin's Lane.
Frame: Tortoiseshell and black oak, perhaps late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century. The back board with a label of William Dodds, Carver Gilder and Glass Manufacturer, of 5 St Martin's Lane.
Object details
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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, painted by W. P., probably William Pawlett, 1670-1675. |
Physical description | Portrait of a man, half-length, turned to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a neckcloth tied in a bow, long wig and suit of armour; on the left is a baton and a helmet with plumes. Features freely hatched in brown and sanguine, with black in the eyes and facial hair and touches of white for the eyes and tip of the nose, on a pale creamy carnation ground; hair in brown wash, deeply hatched in gummy black and grey with ochre lights; cravat in impasted white over a grey wash; armour, landscape background and accoutrements in appropriate opaque washes, hatched with darker colour and heightened with white; sash in lake washed wet-in-wet; a black marginal strip; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table- book. Frame: Tortoiseshell and black oak, perhaps late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century. The back board with a label of William Dodds, Carver Gilder and Glass Manufacturer, of 5 St Martin's Lane. |
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Content description | Portrait of a man wearing armour, neckcloth and long wig, a helmet on the left. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'WP' (Signed in white, lower left) |
Credit line | Bequeathed by John Jones |
Object history | Provenance: Acquired by John Jones from an unrecorded source and by him bequeathed to the Museum, 1882. |
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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 | 612-1882 |
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Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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