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Self-portrait

Miniature
1818 (made)
Artist/Maker
George Henry Harlow (maker)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Self portrait, set in wide wooden frame, edged with a gold embroidered border.

Inscription Content: Inscribed lower right G H Harlow / Academician of St. Luke / Rome 1818.


Object details

Categories
Miniatures
Portraits
Watercolours
Object type
Miniature
TitleSelf-portrait (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour on ivory
Ivory
Painting
Brief description
Watercolour on ivory miniature, a self portrait by George Henry Harlow. Great Britain, 1818.
Physical description
Self portrait, set in wide wooden frame, edged with a gold embroidered border.

Inscription Content: Inscribed lower right G H Harlow / Academician of St. Luke / Rome 1818.
Dimensions
  • Sight size, oval height: 131mm
  • Sight size, oval width: 99mm
Sight size only 131 x 99 mm
Object history
This is a miniature version of Harlow's self-portrait in oils (canvas 73.5 x 62.0 cm) in the Uffizi painted on his election to the Accademia di Belli Arti in Florence in December 1818. It carries the same inscription. Another version is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (95.27.2) given by George A. Hearn, 1895.
Bibliographic reference
F. Gordon Roe, "Mr. Lionel U. Grace's collection of miniatures." Connoisseur, 1919, p.93. It is possible that it is this miniature that is illustrated.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1081-1988

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Record createdNovember 24, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O173587/self-portrait-miniature-george-henry-harlow/
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