Collection Item: Mary Denton
Basic info
- Collection
- Fine Art
- Title
- Mary Denton
- Object name
- Painting
- Object category
- Painting
- Creators
- Gower, George (Artist)
- Description
- Three-quarter-length young girl to half-left, her chestnut hair in an elaborate jewelled hair band, wearig a lace ruff collar, a black damask surcoat with gold embroidery over a dull red velvet bodice and skirt, with a white underskirt; she holds in her right hand a pendant of diamonds and rubies in an elaborate enamel setting; inscribed, upper right: AETATIS SUAE 15 / ANNO DNI 1573 with a coat of arms, upper left (sinister, a quarterly of six coat for Denton of Hillesden impaling, centre, Martyn of London, impaling, dexter, a quartered coat for Castelin of London).
- Production date start
- 1573
- Period
- Tudor
- Elizabethan
Identification
- Object number
- YORAG : 1137
- Alternative number
- YAG 23505
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 20000277
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Oil on oak (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Panel height 79.0 cm
- Panel width 63.5 cm
- Frame height 93.7 cm
- Frame width 78.5 cm
- Frame depth 4.0 cm
Production
- Creators
- Gower, George (Artist)
- Technique
- Painted
- School/style
- British
