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Source Description
This sitter has curly hair falling around her neck and into which are woven two pearl ornaments. She wears a plain, low-neck white dress. Usually made of lightweight cotton muslin and high-waisted, this type of dress became popular at the end of the eighteenth century and was intended to refer to classical antiquity. Similar garments are worn by many of the female sitters depicted by Andrew Plimer during this period. The background is a blue-gray sky with prominent gray crosshatching. This miniature is an accomplished example of Plimer’s work, with the sitter’s features soft but individualized and not given over to the doll-like caricature that appears in the artist’s other portraits of this date. The work is unsigned, as was typical for Plimer at this time.
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Document identity
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123418
label
Portrait of a Woman
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Source metadata
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123418
contentType
object
title
Portrait of a Woman
description
This sitter has curly hair falling around her neck and into which are woven two pearl ornaments. She wears a plain, low-neck white dress. Usually made of lightweight cotton muslin and high-waisted, this type of dress became popular at the end of the eighteenth century and was intended to refer to classical antiquity. Similar garments are worn by many of the female sitters depicted by Andrew Plimer during this period. The background is a blue-gray sky with prominent gray crosshatching. This miniature is an accomplished example of Plimer’s work, with the sitter’s features soft but individualized and not given over to the doll-like caricature that appears in the artist’s other portraits of this date. The work is unsigned, as was typical for Plimer at this time.
date
1790s
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79900604
creators
3718
genreSpecific
Portrait Miniature
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Framed: 8.4 x 6.8 cm (3 5/16 x 2 11/16 in.); Sight: 7.1 x 6 cm (2 13/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
cul
England, 18th century
accession
1943.649
Source extras
tec
watercolor on ivory in a period gold frame
tombstone
Portrait of a Woman, 1790s. Andrew Plimer (British, 1763–1837). Watercolor on ivory in a period gold frame; framed: 8.4 x 6.8 cm (3 5/16 x 2 11/16 in.); sight: 7.1 x 6 cm (2 13/16 x 2 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection, 1943.649
collection
P - British before 1800
didYouKnow
The miniature remains in its original gold frame, which has a curl of dark brown hair over blue glass on the back.
citations
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Portrait Miniatures: The Edward B. Greene Collection.</em> Cleveland OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951
page_number
Reproduced: p. 29, no. 28, pl. XXI
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Alan Chong.<em> European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page_number
p. 301
citation
Korkow, Cory, and Dario Robleto. <em>Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives</em>. 2013.
page_number
Mentioned: p.83
citation
Korkow, Cory, and Jon L. Seydl. <em>British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>2013.
page_number
Cat. no. 55, pp. 222-223
creditline
The Edward B. Greene Collection
updatedAt
2026-05-29 06:21:01.365000
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123418
dept
European Painting and Sculpture
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P - British before 1800
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watercolor on ivory in a period gold frame
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male
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