Copy of Venus and Cupid with a Lute Player by Titian: 459A

Materials used in production

Enamel

Techniques used in production

Enamelled : Enamel

Inscription or legends present

• Text: Philip II & his Mistress / Copied after a Picture by Titian from the Orleans / Gallery in the Possession of The Right Hon Lord Vis Fitzwilliam at Richmond in Surrey / Horace Hone A R A / Pinx London 1815
• Location: Verso

• Text: This enamel, of Phillip [sic] the Second and his Mistress; / copied after Titian, and by order, with some variations ._ / The original was purchased from the Orleans / Gallery, by The Right Hon. Lord Visct Fitzwilliam / for whom this Enamel was painted / by Horace Hone A.R.A. and miniature painter to His / Royal Highness The Prince Regent - and residing / at No 4 Park Plate St James Street London. / In the year 1815 fifteen _
• Location: Frame, verso
• Method of creation: MS label

References and bibliographic entries

• Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge page(s): 201, 202
• British Miniaturists page(s): 220
• Catalogue of Portrait Miniatures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge page(s): 217

Identification numbers

Accession number: 459A
Primary reference Number: 18263
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Associated departments & institutions

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