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Features in short hatches of grey, brown and sanguine, with dark grey especially around the eyes and in the facial hair; some white heightening in the eyes; all on a very pale carnation ground; hair hatched in grey and brown with white lights over a pale brown wash; the ruff washed in pale grey and embossed with white; doublet in gouache washes with touches of gold, and silver in the buttons; background curtain in the flooded crimson manner (wet- in -wet); gold margin; on vellum put down on pasteboard.   \r\n \r\n<u>Frame:</u> A possibly eighteenth-century ebony portrait-box, each half of which is turned with a double rose on the reverse, the sides curving outward to an arris formed of a torus moulding with narrow fillets on each side; within each half, a screw thread in the sides and the flats turned with a series of torus mouldings culminating in a triple wavy-edged oval forming the opening for the miniature. 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