{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O132384"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O132384/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2007BN4501/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2007BN4501/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2007BN4501","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2019MD3600","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O132384/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O132384","accessionNumber":"P.24-1962","objectType":"Oil painting","titles":[{"title":"An unknown young man","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Half-length portrait of a young man, turned slightly to right but looking to left; left hand tucked inside breast of coat, with a tricorne hat held underarm, and right hand tucked inside coat pocket.  The sitter's hair is powdered and curled and tied back in a black bow; he wears a white cravat with frills and a brown coat edged with gold brocade.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Ramsay, Allan","id":"A8770"},"association":{"text":"painter (artist)","id":"AAT25136"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oil paint","id":"AAT15050"},{"text":"canvas","id":"AAT14078"}],"techniques":[{"text":"oil painting","id":"AAT178684"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Oil on canvas","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"},{"text":"Scotland","id":"THES262877"}],"styles":[{"text":"British School","id":"x30967"},{"text":"Georgian","id":"AAT21048"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2007BN4501","2019MD3600"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"OPH (LOAN)","id":"THES49946"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"oil paintings","id":"AAT33799"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"18th century","earliest":"1700-01-01","latest":"1800-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"AAT54216"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by Claude  D. Rotch","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"75.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"63.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from <u>Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962</u>. London: HMSO, 1964.","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy, ‘European Masters of the 18th century’. 1954-5 (No.19) as attributed to Allan Ramsay.  According to the catalogue of the exhibition, an attribution to Pompeo Batoni has also been suggested.  Reproduced in the <i>Illustrated London News</i>, 15 January 1955.  This painting is in a contemporary English carved frame.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Portrait, half-length, of an unknown young man.  Oil painting by Allan Ramsay, 18th century.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962</u>. London: HMSO, 1964."},{"reference":{"text":"<i>European Masters of the Eighteenth Century</i>, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1954","id":"AUTH354532"},"details":"no.19","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"man","id":"AAT25928"},{"text":"tricorne","id":"AAT46114"},{"text":"embroidering","id":"AAT53653"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["P.24-1962"],"accessionNumberNum":"24","accessionNumberPrefix":"P","accessionYear":1962,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-05-01","recordCreationDate":"2007-02-26","availableToBook":false}}