An Unknown Man
Portrait Miniature
1675-1680 (painted)
1675-1680 (painted)
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Portrait of a young man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a long wig and a neckcloth of patterned lace. Features stippled in brown, sanguine, blue and yellow, with some white heightening, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched with darker colour and with gouache lights over the carnation; cravat in white with some brown hatching over a pale brown-grey wash; robe in blue washes modelled in dark brown; plain dark brown background; on vellum, probably originally put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame: Nineteenth-century oval locket of copper-gilt, the slightly convex back soldered into a rim which is stepped inward with a curved section and two straight steps to the bezel, which holds the rounded edges of the shallowly convex glass; the hanger of rectangular section, grooved down the middle, the ends bifurcating and looping back into diminishing spirals of seven turns.
Frame: Nineteenth-century oval locket of copper-gilt, the slightly convex back soldered into a rim which is stepped inward with a curved section and two straight steps to the bezel, which holds the rounded edges of the shallowly convex glass; the hanger of rectangular section, grooved down the middle, the ends bifurcating and looping back into diminishing spirals of seven turns.
Object details
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Title | An Unknown Man (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour probably originally put down on a leaf from a table-book |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of a unknown man, watercolour on vellum, painted by Peter Cross, 1675-1680. |
Physical description | Portrait of a young man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a long wig and a neckcloth of patterned lace. Features stippled in brown, sanguine, blue and yellow, with some white heightening, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched with darker colour and with gouache lights over the carnation; cravat in white with some brown hatching over a pale brown-grey wash; robe in blue washes modelled in dark brown; plain dark brown background; on vellum, probably originally put down on a leaf from a table-book. Frame: Nineteenth-century oval locket of copper-gilt, the slightly convex back soldered into a rim which is stepped inward with a curved section and two straight steps to the bezel, which holds the rounded edges of the shallowly convex glass; the hanger of rectangular section, grooved down the middle, the ends bifurcating and looping back into diminishing spirals of seven turns. |
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Content description | Portrait of a young man, turned slightly to left and wearing a long wig and neckcloth. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'PC' (Signed lower left, in yellow) |
Credit line | Purchased from the funds of the R. H. Stephenson Bequest |
Object history | Provenance: In 1865 in the possession of the 6th Earl of Chesterfield; evidently by descent with the title rather than the property after 1871, until c.1916; subsequently with HE Backer ( the dealer), from whom purchased by the Museum, September 1952. |
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Accession number | P.29-1952 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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