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On display at V&A South Kensington
Portrait Miniatures, Room 90a, The International Music and Art Foundation Gallery

Unknown Woman, said to be Frances Jennings, later Duchess of Tyrconnell

Portrait Miniature
1672-1675 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Portrait, half-length, of a woman, nearly left profile and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a necklace of pearls and a dress adorned with jewellery.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleUnknown Woman, said to be Frances Jennings, later Duchess of Tyrconnell (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book
Brief description
Portrait miniature of an unknown woman, ca. 1672-1675, watercolour on vellum, painted by Richard Gibson.
Physical description
Portrait, half-length, of a woman, nearly left profile and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a necklace of pearls and a dress adorned with jewellery.
Dimensions
  • Height: 71mm
  • Width: 60mm
Dimensions taken from John Murdoch Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997.
Content description
Portrait of a woman wearing a pearl necklace.
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'No6' (Inscribed in ink, on the back, by an old hand)
  • 'D'; '184'; 'N26' and '2' (Inscribed more recently on the back)
Credit line
Presented by Art Fund
Object history
Provenance: Buccleuch Collection; purchased as part of a group by the NACF in 1942 and presented to the Museum.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Murdoch, John. Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1942, London: HMSO, 1955.
Collection
Accession number
P.5-1942

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Record createdJuly 3, 2003
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