Code: 12597
This is a rather charming portrait miniature dating to the mid-18th century. It is hand-painted in watercolours on paper/parchment. The portrait is of a young man wearing a green doublet with a stock and white whig. The portrait is enclosed within a heart-shaped tinned snuffbox. The front of the box is mounted a copper farthing of King George Ist. An endearing object that may have once been presented as a Valentine's Day gift?
OBJECT: Portrait Miniature
MATERIAL: partchment, water colour.
CULTURE: Georgian
DATE: c. 1760 AD
SIZE: 62.7mm x 65.1mm x 15.8mm
WEIGHT: 83.47 grams
PROVENANCE: Formerly in a private collection. Buckinghamshire.
