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The background is light grey with a gold border.\r\n\nInscription Content: Inscribed on reverse in an 18th century hand Henry Earle / of Northumberland","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Isaac Oliver","id":"A8707"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"vellum","id":"AAT11852"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting","id":"AAT54216"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour on vellum, mounted on card","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AU3253"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"RMC","shelf":"10","box":"B"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"miniature (painting)","id":"AAT33936"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"after 1596","earliest":"1597-01-01","latest":null},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"E.1170-1988","id":"O174799"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.1171-1988","id":"O173589"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.1172-1988","id":"O173590"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.1173-1988","id":"O173591"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.1174-1988","id":"O78130"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.1175-1988","id":"O173592"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.1176-1988","id":"O173593"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.1178-1988","id":"O173595"},"association":"Group"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"49","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sight size, oval","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"39.5","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sight size, oval","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Sight size. Oval 49 x 39.5 mm","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Item Provenance: The estate of the late Rt. Hon. Viscount Harcourt, K.C.M.G., O.B.E.\n\nExhibitions: Special Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures on loan at the South Kensington Museum, London, 1865. No. 1717.\n\nThe miniature is one of tem by various artists acquired as a group and displayed in two frames. Nine of these miniatures are in the V&A collection, E.1170-1178-1988. The tenth miniature by Nicholas Hilliard of Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, is now held by the National Portrait Gallery, London.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Portrait miniature on vellum by Isaac Oliver depicting Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1566-1601).  Great Britain, ca. 1596-1601.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Strong, Sir Roy, \"The Leicester House Miniatures: Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester and his circle\", Burlington Magazine CXXVII, October 1985, p.698, Cat. 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In 1596 he defeated the Spanish in a naval battle off Cadiz, on this trip he grew a beard, and it is possible that this miniature was first painted immediately after his return from abroad.  He married Frances, the widow of Sir Philip Sidney in 1590.  In 1601 he was executed for trying to secure a plot against Elizabeth's counsellors.\""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Devereux, Robert 2nd Earl of Essex","id":"N2503"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.1177-1988"],"accessionNumberNum":"1177","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1988,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-12-19","recordCreationDate":"2008-11-24","availableToBook":false}}