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The sitter is dressed in masque costume.  Features in long, slight, loose hatches of brown and sanguine shaded with blue and grey; red for the lips, black in the eyes and a white highlight in the sitter's left eye; all on a very pale carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, modelled in dark brown and grey; head-dress in bright scarlet wash partly transparent, modelled in black and white; dress modelled in grey-brown heightened with white over a pale grey wash; shawl loosely hatched in pink, scarlet, yellow and blue; blue, grey and white for the pearls; metallic gold highlights in the jewelled clasp and dress border, but no burnished silver in the stones; background in transparent pale blue wash, loosely hatched horizontally in grey; remains of a gold marginal strip; on vellum put down on pasteboard. \r\n \r\n<u>Frame:</u> Nineteenth- or early twentieth-century copper-gilt locket with a plain convex back, fitting an oval made of double-toothed strip within a rope-twist of wires soldered around the rim; a convex glass under the toothed strip at the front; the hanger a flat loop arranged to simulate continuity with the two diminishing spirals of four-and-a-half turns.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Thach, Nathaniel","id":"A9837"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"vellum","id":"x42751"},{"text":"watercolour","id":"AAT15045"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting","id":"x30598"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour on vellum put down on pasteboard","categories":[{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"},{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"}],"styles":[{"text":"English School","id":"x44855"},{"text":"Stuart","id":"AAT21037"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006BF3957","2006BC8981","2006BC8992"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"RMC","shelf":"1","box":"E"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"miniature","id":"AAT33936"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Netherlands","id":"x29020"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":"possibly"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1649","earliest":"1649-01-01","latest":"1649-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"59","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"48","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from John Murdoch <u>Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>. 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