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Source Description
A gentleman is painted in watercolor. On the reverse of the miniature, rendered in hair are the letters MCO in script, a wreath, a pair of flanking doves and two burning hearts pierced by an arrow, all enclosed within a laurel leaf border.The miniature is mounted in an oval gold frame surrounded both on the obverse and reverse by a row of sixty-two diamonds in silver collets and an outer band of forty-nine half-pearls in gold collets. A loop for the suspension of the miniature is faced with three half-pearls.
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Document identity
localId
39344
label
Portrait of a Nobleman
core
obj
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object
citationUrl
pageCount
3
Source metadata
id
39344
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Portrait of a Nobleman
description
A gentleman is painted in watercolor. On the reverse of the miniature, rendered in hair are the letters MCO in script, a wreath, a pair of flanking doves and two burning hearts pierced by an arrow, all enclosed within a laurel leaf border.The miniature is mounted in an oval gold frame surrounded both on the obverse and reverse by a row of sixty-two diamonds in silver collets and an outer band of forty-nine half-pearls in gold collets. A loop for the suspension of the miniature is faced with three half-pearls.
provenance
Acquired by Abraham Jay Fink; by bequest to A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963; given to Walters Art Museum, 1963.
date
ca. 1790
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
miniatures (paintings)
portraits
imageCount
3
pageCount
3
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H of case: 2 7/16 in. (6.19 cm)
Source extras
med
watercolor on ivory, hair, gold, silver, diamonds, pearls
creator_ids
3300
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
2513
3225
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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f34d6e9ca5628a95
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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21119a9b32037f0c
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no
hasDescription
no
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3
type
photo
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6a37cb84742177d9
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no
hasDescription
no