# James Alexander Ross Cuthbert

**Edward Greene Malbone** (American, 1777–1807)  
1799  
watercolor on ivory  
Framed: 7.7 x 6.5 cm (3 1/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 7.3 x 5.9 cm (2 7/8 x 2 5/16 in.)

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1950.243. [The museum's record](https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.243).

## 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](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/edward-greene-malbone)

American, 1777–1807

## Facts

- Type: Portrait Miniature
- Culture: United States
- The artist was 22
- Real size: about 3 × 2½ in (7 × 6 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 18th century
- Colour: grey
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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