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Wax Portrait 1981-1
Portrait of Mrs. Hume
Wax Portrait 1981-1

Portrait of Mrs. Hume

Date1751
Artist/Maker Isaac Gosset (1713-1799)
MediumWax, ebonized wood
DimensionsH: 5 3/4" W: 4 3/4"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1981-1
DescriptionWax portrait of a young woman
InscribedOn the wooden backboard, in modern-looking, forward-slanting, mostly block-style lettering, in black paint, is: "Gosset/Fecet/Anno 1751/M_[rs.?] Hume/AETATIS 16". Crudely incised into the wooden backboard is "1-1814", the meaning of which is undetermined.
Also see "Marks."
MarkingsA modern. circular label affixed to the wooden backboard is imprinted with the words "Geoffrey Hutchinson" with, in freehand, "L/50" in the middle.
ProvenanceJurgen Glanz, London