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Portrait of a Woman

Artist Andrew Plimer (English, 1763 - 1837)
Dateca. 1790
MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt copper alloy case with hair and monogram
DimensionsSight: 1 15/16 × 1 11/16 inches (4.92 × 4.29 cm)
Framed: 2 1/8 × 1 15/16 inches (5.4 × 4.92 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/111
InscribedInscribed with monogram on case verso: "CC" Frame maker’s mark/inventory mark: “Fy of C”
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with powdered hair wearing a white gown before a sky background.Exhibition History
The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 172, as Unknown Lady.
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. 172, p. 59, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.
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