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Portrait of an unknown girl, aged 10

Portrait Miniature
1609 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Hilliard, Nicholas (artist)
Place of origin
England (painted)

Portrait miniature

Object details

Categories
Portraits
Paintings
Children & Childhood
Object type
Portrait miniature
TitlePortrait of an unknown girl, aged 10 (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour on vellum
Watercolour
Vellum
Brief description
Portrait miniature of an unknown girl aged 10, watercolour on vellum, painted by Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619).
Physical description
Portrait miniature
Dimensions
  • Vertical diameter: 76mm
  • Horizontal diameter: 65mm
Style
Stuart
Production
dated 1609
Bibliographic references
  • Strong, Sir Roy, Artists of the Tudor Court: the portrait miniature rediscovered 1520-1620, London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983.
  • p. 91 Catharine MacLeod with Rab MacGibbon, Victoria Button, Katherine Coombs and Alan Derbyshire.‎ Elizabethan treasures : miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver. London : National Portrait Gallery, 2019.‎ ISBN: 9781855147027‎
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.47-2024

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Record createdJuly 14, 2003
Record URL
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