Mrs Pru Phillips
Portrait Miniature
ca.1690 (painted)
ca.1690 (painted)
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Portrait of a woman, half-length, looking to front, the head turned slighlty to left, a ringlet of hair on her left shoulder; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features in very soft blended strokes of brown with blue shadowing, with pink gouache around the nostrils, black and blue with white lights for the eyes, and red for the lips, on a thick creamy carnation ground; hair in very pale brown strokes with grey gouache and long darker brown lining; dress indicated by a red wash, with grey-blue for a mantle and impasted white over pale brown wash for the chemise; background diagonally hatched in browns and ochres over a pale brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
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Title | Mrs Pru Phillips (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of Mrs Pru Phillips, watercolour on vellum by Susannah-Penelope Rosse, ca.1690. |
Physical description | Portrait of a woman, half-length, looking to front, the head turned slighlty to left, a ringlet of hair on her left shoulder; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features in very soft blended strokes of brown with blue shadowing, with pink gouache around the nostrils, black and blue with white lights for the eyes, and red for the lips, on a thick creamy carnation ground; hair in very pale brown strokes with grey gouache and long darker brown lining; dress indicated by a red wash, with grey-blue for a mantle and impasted white over pale brown wash for the chemise; background diagonally hatched in browns and ochres over a pale brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. |
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Content description | Portrait of a woman, facing to front, a ringlet of hair about her right shoulder. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'Mrs Pru Fillips' (Inscribed on the back, in graphite) |
Object history | Provenance: Presumably acquired from Cooper's estate by the Rosses, or perhaps by Priestman (see Rosse, Cat. No. 143) and perhaps in the Michael Rosse sale, 2 April 1723; eventually purchased by Edwin [Durning] Lawrence before 1862, and sold by him to the Museum for £525 in 1892. |
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Bibliographic reference | John Murdoch, 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 | 445-1892 |
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Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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