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Detailed Record

Title: Mary Cornwallis

Object Name: painting

Artist/Maker: Gower, George
Role in production: artist
Place of Creation: Europe, United Kingdom, England
Date: 1580=1585 (circa)

Accession Number: 1953.112
Image Copyright: © Manchester City Galleries

Physical Description

Medium / Material

oil/oil
panel
oil on panel

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Technique

Description

jewellery
Three quarter length, three quarter left side portrait of Mary Cornwallis, wife of the Earl of Bath, in sumptuous Elizabethan dress consisting of pearl headdress, wide ruff, linen sleeves embroidered with blackwork and a plain black velvet gown hung with pearls and brooches. A pendant with classical portrait of a bearded man hangs on a ribbon from her girdle. She stands, one hand playing with her pearls, the other resting by her side, carrying a gold fan inscribed with coat of arms.

Dimensions

Type: object (object: 94cm (37in))
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Width: 94 cm
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Type: object (object: 117.2cm (46 1/8in))
Height: 117.2
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