A rectangular portrait miniature plaque featuring a central oval painting of a lady in 18th-century costume. The subject is depicted wearing a red gown with white trim and a feathered headpiece, housed within a decorative metal oval bezel. This is set into a radiating sunburst pattern of inlaid bone? segments with thin black line borders. The painting bears a painted signature to the upper right quadrant reading Gainsborough. The reverse of the plaque is finished with a fragment of printed paper from a French-German dictionary, containing text including la préposition, blâme, vor Zeit, and Ehemahls.
Height: 11.5 cm
Width: 10 cm.
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