Miniature painting

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Title

Miniature painting

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This miniature painting shows a woman in the fashionable dress of her time. In 1830, a suitable evening look would be a full-sleeved, low-necked dress, and hair parted in side curls with topknot and tiara. Mini mementoesJust as today people might carry a photo of a loved one in their wallet, in times past people kept small portrait paintings close to them. Often they wore them around the neck or concealed them in vest pockets. The beautiful and valuable way in which the portraits were set in ...

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Format

Image

Date created

circa 1830

Creator

Stieler

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/63695

Related subjects

watercolour / paper / copper alloy / glass / ivory / horn / miniatures / paintings / portraits / France

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