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Description: | Three quarter length portrait of Mary Cornwallis, wife of the Earl of Bath, in sumptuous Elizabethan dress consisting of pearl headdress, wide ruff, linen sleeves embroidered with blackwork and a plain black velvet gown hung with pearls and brooches. A pendant with classical portrait of a bearded man hangs on a ribbon from her girdle. She stands, one hand playing with her pearls, the other resting by her side, carrying a gold fan inscribed with a coat of arms.
Technique: oil on panel
medium: oil paint
Mary Cornwallis by George Gower, 1580=1585 (circa), (1953.112). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.5902 | Go to resource |
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