Philip Herbert, Fourth Earl of Pembroke [graphic] / IO [monogram].
1611
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Title
Philip Herbert, Fourth Earl of Pembroke [graphic] / IO [monogram].
Variant title
Previous identification: William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke
Created/published
1611.
Description
1 drawing on vellum : watercolor with bodycolor ; 2 1/8 x 1 11/16 in. (5.3 x 5 cm) (sight)
Associated name
Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617, artist.
Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl of, 1584-1650, associated name.
Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl of, 1584-1650, associated name.
Material base
skin
Note
Signed with monogram and dated at left center: "I" with superimposed "O" / "1611" (the last digit is difficult to read and has been interpreted as a zero)
The work is mounted in a black carved wooden frame, consisting of an oval within a rectangle. Two ovals cut from playing cards were removed as backing for the miniature and initially cataloged as ART File P722 no.1, then transferred to the curatorial file for FPm10. Letter from D. F. Snelgrove of the British Museum to J. G. McManaway of the Folger: The photographs you sent link up closely with the designs for the Queen of Hearts and the Nine of Hearts in two packs we have dated the last quarter of the eighteenth century, E.171 and E.172. (Letter returned to J.G.M. 2/27/1963)
Purchased as William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke.Identified as Philip Herbert, Fourth Earl of Pembroke, by Karen Hearn in Apollo, May 2006. "The features of the two men were distinctively different: William had dark brown hair, a receding hairline and a fuller face, and Philip's hair was light brown, his eyes were grey-blue and the shape of his head long and thin. We know this because both were dearly interested in their own appearance, and sat to a number of different artists. William, for instance, was portrayed in miniature by Isaac Oliver in 1616. In the present exhibition, another miniature by Oliver (no.87) dated 1611, seems not, as catalogued, to represent William, but rather to be an unusually sympathetic image of Philip."
Title from Pressly.
The work is mounted in a black carved wooden frame, consisting of an oval within a rectangle. Two ovals cut from playing cards were removed as backing for the miniature and initially cataloged as ART File P722 no.1, then transferred to the curatorial file for FPm10. Letter from D. F. Snelgrove of the British Museum to J. G. McManaway of the Folger: The photographs you sent link up closely with the designs for the Queen of Hearts and the Nine of Hearts in two packs we have dated the last quarter of the eighteenth century, E.171 and E.172. (Letter returned to J.G.M. 2/27/1963)
Purchased as William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke.Identified as Philip Herbert, Fourth Earl of Pembroke, by Karen Hearn in Apollo, May 2006. "The features of the two men were distinctively different: William had dark brown hair, a receding hairline and a fuller face, and Philip's hair was light brown, his eyes were grey-blue and the shape of his head long and thin. We know this because both were dearly interested in their own appearance, and sat to a number of different artists. William, for instance, was portrayed in miniature by Isaac Oliver in 1616. In the present exhibition, another miniature by Oliver (no.87) dated 1611, seems not, as catalogued, to represent William, but rather to be an unusually sympathetic image of Philip."
Title from Pressly.
Provenance
Provenance: A Mr. Anderson by 1865; Collection of W. E. Bools, Enderby House, Clapham, bought for £50 at an unspecified date.
Source of acquisition
Bools sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Auctioneers, Wellington St., Strand, London [1902]; 34-35 New Bond St., London, 22-27 (22) June 1903, lot 1435, £56 plus 10 percent commission, Sothern acting as agent.
Exhibited
Exhibited: London, South Kensington Museum (now Victoria and Albert), "Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures on Loan at South Kensington Museum," 1865, no. 298, as "William Herbert Third Earl of Pembroke. Signed and dated 'I.O.1610.'"; San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences, and six other cities in traveling exhibition organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library, "Shakespeare: The Globe and the World," 1979-1981, repr. pp. 122 and 177 (image reversed) as William Herbert; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb. 15, 1994, as William Herbert; London, National Portrait Gallery, "Searching for Shakespeare," 2006, no.87, as William Herbert.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001-2002. The Reader Revealed (catalog entry 80, as William Herbert)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001-2002. The Reader Revealed (catalog entry 80, as William Herbert)
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 194 (Plate 32)
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPm10
Genre/form
Miniatures (Paintings)
Portraits.
Watercolors.
Portraits.
Watercolors.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPm10 (realia)
Folger-specific note
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