Unknown Youth: PD.7-1949

Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Titles

Unknown Youth
Abraham Cowley 1618-67

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Zincke, Christian Friedrich

Entities

Miniature (painting)

Notes

History note: Edward Lovibond; his sale May 1776, where bought by Horace Walpole; Strawberry Hill sale 10 May 1842 (51), as miniature of Cowley, the poet; R.S. Holford; Sir George Lindsay Holford; his sale Christie's, 14 July 1927 (128); H. Seal; his sale Christie's, 16 February 1949 (130), where bought by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam

Measurements and weight

Height: 68 mm
Width: 54 mm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1949-02-16) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Dating

Production date: AD 1716

School or Style

German

Materials used in production

Enamel

Components of the work

Frame Depth 7 mm Height 85 mm Width 55 mm

Techniques used in production

Enamelled : Enamel

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: monogram

Text: CF Zincke, Fecit
Location: Verso
Type: Signature

Text: 1716
Location: Verso, below the above
Type: Date

References and bibliographic entries

Anecdotes of Painting in England page(s): 29
A Description of the Villa Strawberry Hill page(s): 82
A Dictionary of Painters from the Revival of the Art to the Present Period page(s): 103
Dictionnaire des miniaturistes sur émail page(s): 210
The Vertue Notebooks page(s): 30
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1949 page(s): 2
Sir Peter Lely page(s): 51, 52
Catalogue of Portrait Miniatures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge page(s): 212-3

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.7-1949
Primary reference Number: 18253
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020

Associated departments & institutions

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

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