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Eye Miniature

Artist Unknown
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1800
MediumWatercolor on ivory; Vermeil bezel mounted on a gold pin
DimensionsSight: 3/4 × 9/16 inches (1.91 × 1.43 cm)
Framed: 13/16 × 5/8 inches (2.06 × 1.59 cm)
Overall (Overall): 3 5/8 inches (9.21 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/195
InscribedNone
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionEye miniature depicting a brown iris with a painted brown hair surround.Provenance

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1958;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 217, p. 72, (repro.), as Eye Miniature.

Maggie Keenan, “Unknown, Eye Miniature, ca. 1800,” catalogue entry in Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, Blythe Sobol, and Maggie Keenan, The Starr Collection of Portrait Miniatures, 1500–1850: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, vol. 1, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.4102.

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