Unknown Woman
Portrait Miniature
1640-1645 (painted)
1640-1645 (painted)
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Portrait, turned to left and looking to front, of an unknown woman; the sitter is wearing a necklace of pearls and earrings. Features hatched finely in brown and sanguine, with grey and some blue shadow, and red in the lips, on a very pale, thick carnation ground extending under the hair; hair hatched in dark brown and black over pale brown wash; costume and accessories in wash with gouache heightening and some touches of gold; background, a landscape and sky washed and hatched in gouache; on vellum put down on pasteboard.
Frame: Eighteenth-centur y(?) chased gold rim with a central beaded fillet and a scalloped bezel holding a slightly convex glass; the tortoiseshell back held by a smooth bezel.
Frame: Eighteenth-centur y(?) chased gold rim with a central beaded fillet and a scalloped bezel holding a slightly convex glass; the tortoiseshell back held by a smooth bezel.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Unknown Woman (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on pasteboard |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of an unknown woman, watercolour on vellum, painted by John Hoskins, 1640-1645. |
| Physical description | Portrait, turned to left and looking to front, of an unknown woman; the sitter is wearing a necklace of pearls and earrings. Features hatched finely in brown and sanguine, with grey and some blue shadow, and red in the lips, on a very pale, thick carnation ground extending under the hair; hair hatched in dark brown and black over pale brown wash; costume and accessories in wash with gouache heightening and some touches of gold; background, a landscape and sky washed and hatched in gouache; on vellum put down on pasteboard. Frame: Eighteenth-centur y(?) chased gold rim with a central beaded fillet and a scalloped bezel holding a slightly convex glass; the tortoiseshell back held by a smooth bezel. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'IH' [obscured by frame] (Signed in black, lower right) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by George Salting |
| Object history | Provenance: George Salting; by him bequeathed to the Museum, 1910. Long evidently thought that the miniature had been in the Addington Collection; (1) he cites two lots from the Addington sales (2) both Signed Hoskins miniatures of unknown women and both formerly in Lord Shaftesbury's collection. Long may have based this line of thought on something in the Salting notebooks, to which he had access but which are now lost. Normally Long would have copied out anything relevant from the notebooks. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Murdoch, John. Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | P.117-1910 |
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| Record created | July 14, 2003 |
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