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These are a W and/or a combination of V and W, perhaps the sitter’s initials.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"Portrait of a man, half-length, turned to and looking to left, his right hand protruding from beneath his cloak; the sitter is wearing a cloak over his right shoulder and an earring in his left ear.","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"man","id":"AAT25928"},{"text":"earring","id":"AAT45998"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["P.5-1944"],"accessionNumberNum":"5","accessionNumberPrefix":"P","accessionYear":1944,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-07-29","recordCreationDate":"2003-07-08","availableToBook":false}}