Unknown Lady: 3902

People, subjects and objects depicted

• Miniature (painting)
• Portrait of a woman

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Bodycolour

Components of the work

Support composed of card

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Bodycolour and watercolour on card

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: indistinct

• Text: I O
• Location: Lower left
• Method of creation: Gold
• Type: Signature

Inscription present: in a 19th century hand

• Text: by Hilliard Engraved
• Location: Verso

References and bibliographic entries

• Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum page(s): 56
• The Biographical Mirror page(s): 20
• Early English Portrait Miniatures in the Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch page(s): 10
• English Miniatures
• British Miniaturists page(s): 318. 319
• 'Hilliard and Elizabethan Miniatures' page(s): 181
• The British Miniature page(s): 29
• English Portrait Miniatures page(s): 29
• Aspects of Miniature Painting page(s): 109
• The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey page(s): 253
• Nicholas Hilliard page(s): 248
• English Art 1553-1625 page(s): 212
• The Miniature in Europe (II) page(s): 601
• Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art 1520-1600 page(s): 56
• Isaac Oliver page(s): 30
• New light on John Dowland's "Songs of Darkness"' page(s): 12
• The English Renaissance Miniature page(s): 185
• The Way Howe to Lymne page(s): 40, 42
• Hilliard and Oliver page(s): 155, 156
• Catalogue of Portrait Miniatures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge page(s): 164-5
• The Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen page(s): 98-9

Related exhibitions

• Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance and More Recent Periods
• Loan Exhibition of Miniatures from the Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch
• British Art c. 1000-1860
• Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver
• Treasures of Cambridge
• Gifts to Galleries
• Artists of the Tudor Court: The Portrait Miniature Rediscovered 1520-1620
• Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3902
Primary reference Number: 18128
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Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints