A Man, apparently Isaac Casaubon
Portrait Miniature
ca. 1620 (painted)
ca. 1620 (painted)
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Portrait, head and shoulders, to front and wearing a ruff. Features in long, soft hatches of pale brown shaded with grey and darker brown; dark brown and black in the eyes and facial hair; red for the lips and a white highlight in the right eye; painted directly over the vellum without a carnation ground; ruff in thick white wash, shaded and modelled in grey, with some impasted white heightening; coat in gummy black wash with some grey for the details; background in solid blue wash, shaded in dark grey-black hatches left and right; on vellum put down on pasteboard (a playing card, parts of three clubs).
Frame: Nineteenth-century circular silver-gilt locket, with convex back and the sides deeply grooved, curving in a broad rolled edge to the bezel, which holds a convex glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of D-section, with a central channel, of tear-drop form, dividing into diminishing spirals of three turns. Packed out with part of a nineteenth-century goldsmith's trade card (no name).
Frame: Nineteenth-century circular silver-gilt locket, with convex back and the sides deeply grooved, curving in a broad rolled edge to the bezel, which holds a convex glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of D-section, with a central channel, of tear-drop form, dividing into diminishing spirals of three turns. Packed out with part of a nineteenth-century goldsmith's trade card (no name).
Object details
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Title | A Man, apparently Isaac Casaubon (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on pasteboard |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of a man, apparently Isaac Casaubon, watercolour on vellum, painted by Peter Oliver, ca.1620. |
Physical description | Portrait, head and shoulders, to front and wearing a ruff. Features in long, soft hatches of pale brown shaded with grey and darker brown; dark brown and black in the eyes and facial hair; red for the lips and a white highlight in the right eye; painted directly over the vellum without a carnation ground; ruff in thick white wash, shaded and modelled in grey, with some impasted white heightening; coat in gummy black wash with some grey for the details; background in solid blue wash, shaded in dark grey-black hatches left and right; on vellum put down on pasteboard (a playing card, parts of three clubs). Frame: Nineteenth-century circular silver-gilt locket, with convex back and the sides deeply grooved, curving in a broad rolled edge to the bezel, which holds a convex glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of D-section, with a central channel, of tear-drop form, dividing into diminishing spirals of three turns. Packed out with part of a nineteenth-century goldsmith's trade card (no name). |
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Credit line | Bequeathed by the Reverend Alexander Dyce |
Object history | Provenance: Acquired by the Revd Alexander Dyce from an unrecorded source, and by him bequeathed to the Museum, 1869. |
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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. |
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Accession number | DYCE.89 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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