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- Museum number
- 2010,7081.6357
- Title
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Object: Titian's Daughter
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Series: Specimens of Art
- Description
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Portrait of a young woman, sometimes identified as Titian's daughter Lavinia, seen three-quarter length, turned to the right, and looking towards the viewer whilst holding up a small chest adorned with pearls and precious stones; curtain on the left; illustration to 'Specimens of Art', plate 5.
Mezzotint with some etching
- Production date
- 1830s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 175 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 128 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The remainder of the inscription is recorded in the Lennox-Boyd database as: 'From the Orig..l Picture in the possession of J. Rogers. // Specimens of Art Plate 5 // London Published by J. McCormick, 62, Paternoster Row.'
A variant of the painting now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, and representing the same sitter holding up a dish of fruits.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.6357