Lot 1023
PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF LADY CHRISTIAN HOPE
18TH CENTURY
Auction: 3 October 2012 at 13:00 BST
£938
Description
oval, the sitter depicted as an elderly lady wearing a black wrap and white shawl, her head in a white ribbon-tied bonnet with a blue bow, the reverse with a hair arrangement and the initials 'Ly C G/ 85' against a cobalt enamel ground, in a gold locket pendant frame and red Moroccan leather oval case
Dimensions
6.5cm high
Footnote
Note: Lady Christian Hope (1714-1799) was the third daughter of the Charles, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone. In 1743 she married Thomas Graham of Balgowan. She gave birth to three children but only their son Thomas, later Lord Lynedoch, survived to adulthood. According to an accompanying card, the hair belongs to her three children and her parents.