Portrait of a Woman
c. 1775
John I Smart
John I Smart (British, 1741–1811)
Drawings
Portrait of a Woman, c. 1775. John I Smart (British, 1741–1811). Gray and red wash over graphite, heightened with white gouache on laid paper; sheet: 5.4 x 4.7 cm (2 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.); secondary support: 5.3 x 4.8 cm (2 1/16 x 1 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.82 Mrs. A. Dean Perry, who donated this drawing to CMA, is the granddaughter of one of the museum’s founding members, Jeptha Homer Wade II.
- Maker/Artist
- Smart, John I
- Classification
- Portrait Miniature
- Formatted Medium
- gray and red wash over graphite, heightened with white gouache on laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 5.4 x 4.7 cm (2 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 5.3 x 4.8 cm (2 1/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: verso, in bottom half, in graphite: Anne of / Denmark ; in top half, in graphite: 141 [upside down] inscribed in graphite on verso of drawing, at top: very dark brown hair / . . . ry . . .; inscribed in brown ink on verso of drawing: to be set[s?] in . . . / and put in a Black / Frame largest . . . / [G . . .’s?] Size
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1997.82
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
- Exhibitions
- Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives, <em>Royal Amateur Art Society Exhibition of Miniatures</em>, Moncorvo House, London (March 5-8, 1904).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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