Watercolour Portrait
1836 (made)
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Watercolour painting on paper, in a gilded wooden frame. The portrait depicts Alfred Fuller, aged four, wearing a dress in the fashionable style of the period. The dress is blue, with wide robings over puffed sleeves, and the bodice trimmed with braid in a style based on a hussar's uniform. He is bare-headed, and also wears white linen or cotton pantaloons, white hose, and black pumps. He holds a hobby horse (see MISC.523:1-1981) in his left hand and a whip in his right.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on paper, gilded wood |
| Brief description | Framed watercolour painting of portrait proportions, showing Alfred Fuller in a blue dress and holding the associated hobby horse in his left hand and a whip in his right; England, 1836 |
| Physical description | Watercolour painting on paper, in a gilded wooden frame. The portrait depicts Alfred Fuller, aged four, wearing a dress in the fashionable style of the period. The dress is blue, with wide robings over puffed sleeves, and the bodice trimmed with braid in a style based on a hussar's uniform. He is bare-headed, and also wears white linen or cotton pantaloons, white hose, and black pumps. He holds a hobby horse (see MISC.523:1-1981) in his left hand and a whip in his right. |
| Production type | Unique |
| Credit line | Given by Jean Walton |
| Object history | This painting depicts a four year old boy, Alfred Fuller, holding a hobby horse which is also in the Museum's collection (see MISC.523:1-1981). Both were given the Museum in 1981 [81/1913] |
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| Accession number | MISC.523:2-1981 |
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| Record created | August 15, 2018 |
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