FDA-P.38-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.38-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Jane Shore
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length portrait of a woman, nude, with an elaborate necklace and jewels in her hair
Comments
This work was painted after a 16th-century panel version in King’s College, Cambridge. Dendrochronological testing of the King’s version dates the painting to 1550-60 (Note added May 2009).
Description
Content (person)
Shore, Jane, ? - c.1526/27 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 485mm
width (sight size): 370mm
width (sight size): 370mm
Inscription
Labels on reverse:
1. Printed label 'Exhibition of Art Treasures 1857', inscribed in pen and ink 'The Reverend Provost and Fellows of Eton College proprietor'
2. Identical printed label with name inscribed in pen and ink 'Casper Barlow'(?)
3. Printed no.'876', possibly auction no.
4. Luggage label with pencil inscription (needs UV lamp to decipher)
5. Paper label with number in pen and ink '33306'
6. Paper label inscribed in 19th century hand in pen and ink 'Eton'
1. Printed label 'Exhibition of Art Treasures 1857', inscribed in pen and ink 'The Reverend Provost and Fellows of Eton College proprietor'
2. Identical printed label with name inscribed in pen and ink 'Casper Barlow'(?)
3. Printed no.'876', possibly auction no.
4. Luggage label with pencil inscription (needs UV lamp to decipher)
5. Paper label with number in pen and ink '33306'
6. Paper label inscribed in 19th century hand in pen and ink 'Eton'
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt frame
History and association
Object history note
Exhibited: British Institution, London, 1820 (catalogue number 134); London, British Institution, 1846, no.134; Manchester Art Treasures, 1857 (catalogue number 6); South Kensington, National Portrait Exhibition, 1866 (Easter Corridor, catalogue number 34)
References
• Cole, B. ed., Eton Collections Review 3, December 2008 (pp.13-21, Fig.2)
