Miss Wells
Portrait Miniature
1690-1700 (painted)
1690-1700 (painted)
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Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, turned to front and looking to left. Features stippled in pale grey and sanguine with brown, yellow and blue, and with green-blue in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and stippled with darker colour and with some gouache lights, over the carnation; chemise in white and grey over an off-white wash; dress in transparent blue washes with some black shadow; background a brown wash, hatched and darkened to left, lightening to the right; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame: Nineteenth- or early twentieth-century copper-gilt locket; the back convex, the sides with two channels separated by a bead rising to the bezel, which holds the nearly flat glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger, which is soldered awkwardly to the top of the locket, is a ring of D-section set on a short-waisted column and has a pointed knop on the top. When acquired, the miniature was said to be in 'a brass frame'.
Frame: Nineteenth- or early twentieth-century copper-gilt locket; the back convex, the sides with two channels separated by a bead rising to the bezel, which holds the nearly flat glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger, which is soldered awkwardly to the top of the locket, is a ring of D-section set on a short-waisted column and has a pointed knop on the top. When acquired, the miniature was said to be in 'a brass frame'.
Object details
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Title | Miss Wells (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of Miss Wells, watercolour on vellum, painted by Peter Cross, 1690-1700. |
Physical description | Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, turned to front and looking to left. Features stippled in pale grey and sanguine with brown, yellow and blue, and with green-blue in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and stippled with darker colour and with some gouache lights, over the carnation; chemise in white and grey over an off-white wash; dress in transparent blue washes with some black shadow; background a brown wash, hatched and darkened to left, lightening to the right; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. Frame: Nineteenth- or early twentieth-century copper-gilt locket; the back convex, the sides with two channels separated by a bead rising to the bezel, which holds the nearly flat glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger, which is soldered awkwardly to the top of the locket, is a ring of D-section set on a short-waisted column and has a pointed knop on the top. When acquired, the miniature was said to be in 'a brass frame'. |
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Content description | Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, turned to front and looking to left. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'PC' (Signed, centre left) |
Object history | Provenance: Julian Senior, his sale, Christie's 15 May 1906, lot 96, bt (42 gns) by E M Hodgkins on behalf of the Museum. |
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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 | 270-1906 |
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Record created | July 11, 2003 |
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