An Unknown Man
Portrait Miniature
1680-1690 (painted)
1680-1690 (painted)
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Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, head turned slightly to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a long wig, armour and a neckcloth. Features stippled in grey and sanguine with brown and blue, and with white heightening in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and stippled with darker brown and black, and with the lights in gouache, over the carnation; cravat in white and grey over an off-white wash; armour washed and hatched in opaque greys and with touches of blue, with the highlights in white and the studs in metallic gold; background a dense brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame: Seventeenth- or perhaps eighteenth-century oval silver-gilt locket; the back convex (possibly regilded) and engraved elaborately with a symmetrical pattern of acanthus and other foliar ornament issuing from a triangle at the base of the hanger in an apparently eighteenth-century manner; the channelled sides rise to the bezel, which has been replaced with a gold rim that holds the edges of the flat glass; the hanger of D-section, channelled down the middle, bifurcates and turns back into two small loops before beginning diminishing spirals of five turns. Scratched on the back in a nineteenth-century hand: Lord / Maynard.
Frame: Seventeenth- or perhaps eighteenth-century oval silver-gilt locket; the back convex (possibly regilded) and engraved elaborately with a symmetrical pattern of acanthus and other foliar ornament issuing from a triangle at the base of the hanger in an apparently eighteenth-century manner; the channelled sides rise to the bezel, which has been replaced with a gold rim that holds the edges of the flat glass; the hanger of D-section, channelled down the middle, bifurcates and turns back into two small loops before beginning diminishing spirals of five turns. Scratched on the back in a nineteenth-century hand: Lord / Maynard.
Object details
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Object type | |
Title | An Unknown Man (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of an unknown man, watercolour on vellum, painted by Peter Cross, 1680-1690. |
Physical description | Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, head turned slightly to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a long wig, armour and a neckcloth. Features stippled in grey and sanguine with brown and blue, and with white heightening in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and stippled with darker brown and black, and with the lights in gouache, over the carnation; cravat in white and grey over an off-white wash; armour washed and hatched in opaque greys and with touches of blue, with the highlights in white and the studs in metallic gold; background a dense brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. Frame: Seventeenth- or perhaps eighteenth-century oval silver-gilt locket; the back convex (possibly regilded) and engraved elaborately with a symmetrical pattern of acanthus and other foliar ornament issuing from a triangle at the base of the hanger in an apparently eighteenth-century manner; the channelled sides rise to the bezel, which has been replaced with a gold rim that holds the edges of the flat glass; the hanger of D-section, channelled down the middle, bifurcates and turns back into two small loops before beginning diminishing spirals of five turns. Scratched on the back in a nineteenth-century hand: Lord / Maynard. |
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Content description | Portrait of a man wearing armour, a long wig and neckcloth. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'PC' (Signed lower left, in gold) |
Credit line | Bequeathed by George Salting |
Object history | Provenance: Acquired from an unrecorded source by George Salting, and by him bequeathed to the Museum, 1910. |
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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.106-1910 |
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Record created | July 11, 2003 |
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