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Unknown Man, by Isaac Oliver I

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An image of Miniature. Unknown Man. Oliver, Isaac I (British, 1556(?)-1617). Watercolour on vellum on card, height 54 mm, width 49 mm, 1588. Production Note: Formerly catalogued as '?Dutch School, 16th century'. New attribution by H.W. 'Disputed attribution', Graham Reynolds (Apollo, November 1985).

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Miniature. Unknown Man. Oliver, Isaac I (British, 1556(?)-1617). Watercolour on vellum on card, height 54 mm, width 49 mm, 1588. Production Note: Formerly catalogued as '?Dutch School, 16th century'. New attribution by H.W. 'Disputed attribution', Graham Reynolds (Apollo, November 1985).

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  • Accession Number: 3882
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: GFX 50S
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 995 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 789.61kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2018:05:29 22:36:17

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16th Century aristocracy aristocratic bald balding bearded beards blue British School collar doublet English Fitz_PDP Isaac Oliver male man middle age middle-aged miniature nobility noble nobleman oval portrait miniature portraits society society portraiture Tudor Period vellum watercolour

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