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Edward Greene Malbone painted this in 1799, aged 22. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art. More about this work
About this work
Edward Greene Malbone painted this in 1799, aged 22. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
How it was made
- Watercolour on ivory
- Thin sheets of ivory gave watercolour a luminous, skin-like glow, which made them the favourite support for portrait miniatures from the early 1700s.
- Watercolour
- Pigment in gum arabic, thinned with water and laid in transparent washes. Nothing white is painted: the light is the paper showing through.
Edward Greene Malbone
American, 1777–1807
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Cleveland Museum of Art has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 1950.243
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
- Type
- Portrait Miniature
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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