A Woman, perhaps Anne Palmer, Countess of Sussex
Portrait Miniature
1680-1685 (painted)
1680-1685 (painted)
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Portrait of a woman, half-length, facing to front, head turned slightly to right; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features softly indicated in pale brown with some touches of grey-blue for the shadows, dark blue in the eyes and red in the lips, on a very pale off white carnation ground; hair in broad grey and dark brown 'rolls' over pale brown wash; lines of dress indicated in very pale brown wash; background a cloudy blue-grey wash to the right, to the left a solid dark brown; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
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| Title | A Woman, perhaps Anne Palmer, Countess of Sussex (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of a woman, perhaps Anne Palmer, Countess of Sussex, watercolour on vellum by Susannah-Penelope Rosse, 1680-1685. |
| Physical description | Portrait of a woman, half-length, facing to front, head turned slightly to right; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features softly indicated in pale brown with some touches of grey-blue for the shadows, dark blue in the eyes and red in the lips, on a very pale off white carnation ground; hair in broad grey and dark brown 'rolls' over pale brown wash; lines of dress indicated in very pale brown wash; background a cloudy blue-grey wash to the right, to the left a solid dark brown; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. |
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| Content description | Portrait of a woman, half-length, facing to front. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'L /Countess Sussex' (Inscribed on the back in graphite) |
| Object history | Provenance: Presumably acquired from Cooper's estate by the Rosses, or perhaps by Priestman (see Rosse, Cat. No. 143) and perhaps in the Michael Rosse sale, 2 April 1723; eventually purchased by Edwin [Durning] Lawrence before 1862, and sold by him to the Museum for £525 in 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 | 450-1892 |
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| Record created | January 7, 2003 |
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