Portrait of a Woman, called Mrs. Close
1786
Horace Hone
Horace Hone (British, 1756–1825)
European Painting and Sculpture
Portrait of a Woman, called Mrs. Close, 1786. Horace Hone (British, 1756–1825). Watercolor on ivory in an ormolu frame; framed: 8.9 x 7.5 cm (3 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.); sight: 6.5 x 5.2 cm (2 9/16 x 2 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1943.644 The artist, Horace Hone, signed the miniature in the lower right with the monogram HH.
- Maker/Artist
- Hone, Horace
- Classification
- Portrait Miniature
- Formatted Medium
- watercolor on ivory in an ormolu frame
- Medium
- watercolor, ivory, ormolu, frame
- Dimensions
- Framed: 8.9 x 7.5 cm (3 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.); Sight: 6.5 x 5.2 cm (2 9/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed lower right: HH / 1786 [HH in monogram]
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1943.644
- Credit Line
- The Edward B. Greene Collection
- Exhibitions
- Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America, Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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