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Features hatched and stippled in brown and sanguine, with touches of blue, on a very pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, lined with darker colour and with the lights in pale gouache; linen washed in white; robe washed in blue; the background an opaque brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. \n\n<u>Frame:</u> Seventeenth-century gold locket, the convex back enamelled in opaque pale blue, on which a landscape (with Youth and Age approaching the bank of a river with a castle on the other side) is enamelled in black; within a border of blue alternating with black, and with a repeating abstract flower ornament in black and white within an outer border of gold, and with a rounded edge of blue and black rope-work enamel; the sides with a deep narrow channel flare out in unenamelled gold to the bezel, which holds the flat glass by its rounded edges; the hanger of shallow D-section enamelled in blue and black to resemble a ribbon, which carries on over flanking double-sided loops; a gold peg at the base, presumably to secure a lid, of which however no trace (such as a hinge filed-off) now remains. 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