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- Title:
- Portrait of an Unknown Lady
- Date:
- ca. 1535
- Materials & Techniques:
- Gouache on thin card
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 1 7/8 inches (4.8 cm), Frame: 2 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches (7 x 6.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in gouache center left: "o | +A N+"; in artist's hand in gouache center right: "+xviii""
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1974.2.59
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- portrait
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11611
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Artists of the Tudor Court - The Portrait Miniature Rediscovered (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983-07-06 - 1983-11-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, p. 140, no. 467, NC772 N66+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 2, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Polly Saltmarsh, Portrait of an Unknown Lady : Technical analysis of an early Tudor miniature, British Art Studies, Accessed May 27, 2025, figs. 1, 3--5, 7-15, 30, British Art Studies https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-17/portrait-of-an-unknown-lady [Website]
Roy C. Strong, Artists of the Tudor court : the portrait miniature rediscovered, 1520-1620, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1983, pp. 52-53, no. 37, fig. IX, ND1337 .G7 S77 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Cynthia Zarin, Teen queen : looking for Lady Jane, New Yorker, vol. 83, October 15, 2007, pp. 46, 50, 55, V 2632 (YCBA) [YCBA]