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A serendipitous discovery: a lost Italian portrait from Horace Walpole’s miniature cabinet
04/2025 | 1465 | 167
Pages: 368-375
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Concin, Adriana (Concin, Adriana)
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1. The Walpole miniature cabinet, designed by Horace Walpole in collaboration with William Kent. 1873. Padouk veneered onto a pine carcase and set with carved ivory plaques, figures and mounts, 152.4 by 91.5 by 21.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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10. Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, by Lavinia Fontana. 1599. Oil on canvas, 256 by 325 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin).
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11. Detail of Fig.10.
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12. Fig.4, shown at actual size.
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2. Portrait after a miniature once in Horace Walpole’s collection at Strawberry Hill, by George Perfect Harding. c.1801–53. Watercolour on paper, 16.3 by 12.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
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3. Portrait of Bianca Cappello, after Jacopo Ligozzi. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 33.7 by 19.8 cm. (Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington).
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4. Portrait of a noblewoman, here attributed to Lavinia Fontana. c.1580–90. Oil on copper, 5.5 by 4.75 cm. (Private collection).
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5. Directions for [ar]ranging the pictures in the Rosewood Cabinet in the Tribune, by Horace Walpole. c.1784. Pen and ink with pencil, 32.6 by 25.5 cm. (London Metropolitan Archives).
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6. The Tribune at Strawberry Hill, by John Carter. 1789. Watercolour on paper, 59.2 by 49.5 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.)
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7. Disposition of the miniatures in the Rosewood Cabinet in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill, by John Carter. c.1784. Watercolour on paper, 32.6 by 27.5 cm. (From Horace Walpole’s copy of ‘A Description of the Villa of Mr Horace Walpole [. . .]’, London c.1784, fol.33 30; Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington).
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8. Detail of Fig.7, showing the illustration of Fig.4 in Walpole’s miniature cabinet.
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9. Portrait of Bianca Cappello with her son Antonio, Alessandro Allori. c.1580. Oil on canvas, 128.4 by 100.5 cm. (Dallas Museum of Art).
Letter
Translating a Hilliard miniature motto
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 892
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Author:
McGrath, Elizabeth (McGrath, Elizabeth; McG., E.)
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Letter
A new translation of a Hilliard miniature motto
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 668–9
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Author:
Darsie, Heather R. (Darsie, Heather R.)
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1. Unknown man clasping a hand from a cloud, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1588. Watercolour on vellum mounted on brown card, height 6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bridgeman Images).
Article
A newly discovered cabinet miniature by Nicholas Hilliard
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 340–347
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Goldring, Elizabeth (Goldring, Elizabeth)
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Rutherford, Emma (Rutherford, Emma)
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1. A lady, here identified as Lady Arbella Stuart, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1592. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, stuck down on card, 21.1 by 17.6 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Elizabeth I (the Ditchley Portrait), by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. c.1592. Oil on canvas, 241.3 by 152.4 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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3. Elizabeth I (an example of the ‘mask of youth’), by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1592–1603. Watercolour on vellum, 6.5 by 5.3 cm. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London).
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4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the floral wreath.
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5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the gold armillary spheres decorating the gown.
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6. A girl, said to depict Lady Arbella Stuart at the age of twenty-three months, by an unknown artist. ?1577. Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 75.1 by 61.5 cm. (National Trust; Hardwick New Hall, Derbyshire).
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7. A girl, said to depict Lady Arbella Stuart at the age of thirteen, by an unknown artist. ?1589. Oil on panel, 162.6 by 87.6 cm. (National Trust; Hardwick New Hall, Derbyshire).
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8. Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1595. Watercolour on vellum, 25.7 by 17.3 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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9. Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, by the Hilliard workshop. c.1595. Watercolour on vellum, 5.2 by 6.4 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Exhibition Review
Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 408–411
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Khan, Zahra (Khan, Zahra)
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20. Because you’re worth it II, by the Singh Twins. 2022. Digital dyed fabric lightbox, 180 by 180 cm. (© The Singh Twins; private collection; exh. the Box, Plymouth).
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21. A lover waiting for his beloved, by Imran Qureshi. 1999. Gouache on paper, 25.4 by 19.1 cm. (Private collection; exh. the Box, Plymouth).
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22. The delivery of presents for Prince Dara- Shukoh’s wedding in December 1632. c.1640. Watercolour and metallic paints on paper, 33 by 23 cm. (Royal Collection, HM King Charles III; exh. the Box, Plymouth).
Exhibition Review
Royal Collections Gallery, Madrid
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1339–1343
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Reviewer:
Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
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Royal Collections Gallery, Madrid From 28th June 2023 | :
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5. Votive cross. Spain, c.650– 700. Gold and sapphires, 21.7 by 11.8 cm. (Royal Collections Gallery, Madrid; courtesy Patrimonio Nacional, Spain).
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6. Installation view of the Royal Collections Gallery, Madrid, 2023, showing four columns from the altar of the chapel of the Hospital of the Virgin of Monserrat, Madrid (1674–78). (Courtesy Patrimonio Nacional, Spain).
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7. St Michael, by Luisa Ignacia Roldán (La Roldana). 1692. Polychrome walnut with estofado, height 264 cm. (Royal Collections Gallery, Madrid; courtesy Patrimonio Nacional, Spain).
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8. Installation view of the gallery for the Trastámara and Habsburg dynasties, Royal Collections Gallery, Madrid, 2023. (Courtesy Patrimonio Nacional, Spain).
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9. Isabel Farnese, by Louis-Michel van Loo. 1737. Oil on canvas, 341 by 263.5 cm. (Royal Collections Gallery, Madrid; courtesy Patrimonio Nacional, Spain).
Short Notice
Image of a connoisseur: an unknown portrait of Pierre Jean Mariette
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1106–1100
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Friedenthal, Antoinette (Friedenthal, Antoinette)
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1. Portrait of a man, here identified as Pierre Jean Mariette, by an anonymous artist (perhaps Jean Mariette?). 1740s. Gouache on ivory, 3.4 by 2.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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2. Pierre Jean Mariette, by Charles-Nicolas Cochin. 1756. Lead point on paper, diameter 11 cm. (Fondation Custodia, Paris).
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3. Pierre Jean Mariette, by Jean-Baptiste Massé. 1735. Black chalk, stumped, with red and white chalks and perhaps some wash on paper, 18.8 by 14.6 cm., mount 47.8 by 36.3 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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4. Detail of Fig.1.
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5. Jean Mariette, by Antoine Pesne. 1723. Oil on canvas, 113 by 93 cm. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris).
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6. Pierre II Mariette, by Franz Ertinger. Black chalk on paper, 16.8 by 12.8 cm. (Fondation Custodia, Paris).
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7. Pierre I Mariette, by Jean Mariette after François de Poilly with a handwritten inscription ‘Petrus Mariette. Iconum mercator Parisiis’ by Pierre Jean Mariette. Etching, 4 by 3.1 cm. (Albertina, Vienna).
Exhibition Review
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 74-76
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Goldring, Elizabeth (Goldring, Elizabeth)
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10. Angel bearing a candlestick (one of a pair), by Benedetto da Rovezzano. 1524–29. Bronze, 101 by 50 by 33 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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11. Elizabeth I (Sieve Portrait), by Quentin Metsys the Younger. 1583. Oil on canvas, 124.5 by 91.5 cm. (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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12. Henry VIII, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1537. Oil on panel, 28 by 20 cm. (Museo Nacional Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
Miniature Painting in the Nationalmuseum: A World-Class Collection
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1168-1170
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Lloyd, Stephen (Lloyd, Stephen)
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Miniature Painting in the Nationalmuseum: A World-Class Collection By Magnus Olausson. 400 pp. incl. 753 col. ills. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2021), £80.50. ISBN 978–91–7100–910–4. | :
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5. Interior of Judge Carl Fredrik Dahlgren’s home, Malmskillnadsgatan 7, Stockholm, c.1894–95. (Photograph Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
Book Review
Time, Media, and Visuality in Post- Revolutionary France
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 423-424
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Wrigley, Richard (Wrigley, Richard)
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Time, Media, and Visuality in Post- Revolutionary France Edited by Iris Moon and Richard Taws. 280 pp. incl. 32 col. + 61 b. & w. ills. (Bloomsbury, London, 2021), £85. ISBN 978–1–5013–4839–6. | :
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