IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18110 accession number: M.7 & A-1959 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Gold, engine turned and chased, the top of the lid set with a portrait miniature painted in watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, under glass. The circular box has straight sides and a flat pull-off lid. The sides of the box are engraved with vertical stripes of engine-turned decoration, the base with concentric rings. Round the edge of the lid and base and at the top and bottom of the sides are borders of stiff leaf decoration on a matted ground. The circular portrait of Elizabeth Montgomery depicts her facing three-quarters to the right; her light brown hair is worn high with two ringlets over her left shoulder. She wears a low cut dress of pink silk, the gauze collar is caught with pink roses at the front. The background is painted blue-grey. object type: gold, engine turned and chased box, the lid set with a portait miniature of a young woman in a pink dress title: box NOTES ----- type: history note value: bought by Conrad Nicholls from Christie's sale of 1 December 1959, lot 146. Bought by the Friends from Nicholls 15th December 1959 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18110 CATEGORIES ------ category: miniature (painting) category: boxes DATING ------ creation date: 1774 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1774 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Majer, Jeremias maker: Beaulieu, Pierre-François Mathis de CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Fifty-first Annual Report, for the Year 1959 Catalogue of Portrait Miniatures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Les Poinçons de Paris: Répertoire des maîtres-orfèvres de la jurisdiction de Paris depuis le moyen-âge jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe siècle The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp2/M_7_1959.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 754 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp2/mid_M_7_1959.jpg height: 504 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp2/M_7_1959.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 754 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp2/preview_M_7_1959.jpg height: 252 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/588/207/large_M_7___A_1959_200711_adn21_mas.jpg height: 1340 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/588/207/mid_M_7___A_1959_200711_adn21_mas.jpg height: 654 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.7 & A-1959_200711_adn21_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/588/207/preview_M_7___A_1959_200711_adn21_mas.jpg height: 327 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/588/207/M_7___A_1959_200711_adn21_mas.ptif height: 6957 pixels width: 5315 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/630/475/large_M_7___A_1959_200711_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 1036 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/630/475/mid_M_7___A_1959_200711_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 506 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.7 & A-1959_200711_adn21_dc1.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/630/475/preview_M_7___A_1959_200711_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 253 pixels width: 250 pixels