Portrait of Lady Grace Anna Newenham
1784
Horace Hone
Horace Hone (British, 1756–1825)
European Painting and Sculpture
Portrait of Lady Grace Anna Newenham, 1784. Horace Hone (British, 1756–1825). Watercolor on ivory; framed: 9 x 7.6 cm (3 9/16 x 3 in.); sight: 7.6 x 6 cm (3 x 2 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1942.1144 Human hair was frequently incorporated into miniatures and was especially appropriate for mourning miniatures because it transformed the object into a kind of reliquary.
- Maker/Artist
- Hone, Horace
- Classification
- Portrait Miniature
- Formatted Medium
- watercolor on ivory
- Medium
- watercolor, ivory
- Dimensions
- Framed: 9 x 7.6 cm (3 9/16 x 3 in.); Sight: 7.6 x 6 cm (3 x 2 3/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed right: HH / 1784 [HH in monogram; inscribed on frame: "THOUGH LOST TO SIGHT TO MEMORY EVER DEAR. I.W. 28th NOVr 1821."]
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1942.1144
- Credit Line
- The Edward B. Greene Collection
- Exhibitions
- Four Centuries of Miniature Painting, Portraiture: The Image of the Individual, Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America, Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives, <em>Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 202), </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20, 2008 - September 22, 2008). [Verso on display].
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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