Self-portrait
Portrait Miniature
1673 (painted)
1673 (painted)
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Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, looking to front and wearing a cloak. Features in long wiry strokes of brown and sanguine, shaded with blue-green, on a pale yellowish carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and heightened with gouache; costume and linen washed and hatched in opaque grey and white with a little brown; sky in washes of opaque blue, grey and white; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame: Nineteenth-century silver-gilt locket, convex back with straight sides, round the centre of which is attached a round wire twisted at the top to form a circular loop. The (replacement) convex glass is retained by a slip- in oval ring of T-section, the flange having notches. There is an inner slip, of narrow flat section.
Frame: Nineteenth-century silver-gilt locket, convex back with straight sides, round the centre of which is attached a round wire twisted at the top to form a circular loop. The (replacement) convex glass is retained by a slip- in oval ring of T-section, the flange having notches. There is an inner slip, of narrow flat section.
Object details
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Title | Self-portrait (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
Brief description | Portrait miniature, self-portrait by Thomas Flatman, watercolour on vellum, 1673. |
Physical description | Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, looking to front and wearing a cloak. Features in long wiry strokes of brown and sanguine, shaded with blue-green, on a pale yellowish carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and heightened with gouache; costume and linen washed and hatched in opaque grey and white with a little brown; sky in washes of opaque blue, grey and white; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. Frame: Nineteenth-century silver-gilt locket, convex back with straight sides, round the centre of which is attached a round wire twisted at the top to form a circular loop. The (replacement) convex glass is retained by a slip- in oval ring of T-section, the flange having notches. There is an inner slip, of narrow flat section. |
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Content description | Portrait of a man, facing front and wearing a cloak. |
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Credit line | Given by the Basil Long Memorial Fund |
Object history | Provenance: Possibly George Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle, at Castle Howard; purchased by Colnaghi's and sold to the Duke of Buccleuch in 1898; on loan at the V&A (Additional Loan no. 20), 1918-25; purchased by Iolo Williams on behalf of the Basil Long Memorial Fund, and presented to the Museum, August 1938. |
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Accession number | P.79-1938 |
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Record created | July 3, 2003 |
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