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But in his entry on this miniature in his catalogue <i>Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the Collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum</i> (1997), John Murdoch concludes that ‘It is difficult to resist the conclusion that the miniature is indeed a clever 19th-century fake’ (catalogue number 59).","physicalDescription":"Portrait, head and shoulders, to right and looking to front.  Features firmly hatched in brown and sanguine with grey shadow on a thick yellowish carnation ground; the beard crisply stippled in dark grey; hair in brown wash, hatched and lined with darker colour and with broad gouache lights, the whole enriched with gum; the ruff a grey wash modelled with white; costume a dark brown wash, hatched and heightened with gouache; chain in gold; background an opaque blue wash, hatched with darker colour lower right; gold marginal strip; on vellum put down on plain card.  \r\n \r\n<u>Frame:</u> Nineteenth-century copper-gilt locket, the back flat set into straight sides, the bezel toothed over the glass; the hanger a plain, nearly circular loop of D-section soldered on; packed out with cut-up playing cards of c.1680.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Cooper, Alexander","id":"A9786"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"in imitation of"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"card","id":"x30344"},{"text":"vellum","id":"x42751"},{"text":"watercolour","id":"AAT15045"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting","id":"AAT54216"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour on vellum put down on plain card","categories":[{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"},{"text":"Fakes & forgeries","id":"THES48958"},{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2016JA2687","2006AG3021","2006BE9734","2017KA0641"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"RMC","shelf":"1","box":"E"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"miniature","id":"AAT33936"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"19th century","earliest":"1800-01-01","latest":"1900-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"possibly 19th century","earliest":"1800-01-01","latest":"1900-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Salting Bequest","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"45","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"37","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from John Murdoch <u>Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>. 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