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PORTRAIT OF LADY TEMPLE KIMBERLEY

Creator(s): Nathaniel Plimer (After)

Currently in storage


About this object

Miniature of a young woman, half-length and facing to the left with her face turned forward. She sits in a landscape with trees shown to the right and leaves shown to the left. She is wearing a large white hat with a fur band into which is tucked a plume. Her hair is powdered grey and one curl rests on her right shoulder. Her dress has a white layered frilled collar, puffed sleeves and a tight bodice. She also wears a pearl necklace under the collar from which is suspended a blue oval pendant medallion framed with pearls. Her dress has a blue sash, and she wears a dark gray dotted shawl around her shoulders. Her right hand in in a gray glove and she is holding the other glove.

Object name:
PORTRAIT OF LADY TEMPLE KIMBERLEY
Made from:
Watercolor on ivory -- gilt metal
Made in:
England
Date made:
ca. 1900
Size:
8.6 × 7.1 cm (3 3/8 × 2 13/16 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
53.52
Class:
MINIATURE
Signature marks:
SIGNATURE; DATE; INSCRIPTION to the left: Plimer 1788; on back of frame written in script: Lady Temple Kimberley
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973