Portrait of a Man
Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Man

Nicholas Freese (British, 1762–after 1824) · c. 1795–1800

watercolor on ivory in a gold frame with glazed hair reverse and opalescent glass over pressed foil and cut gold (or cut paper)
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The back contains a lock of hair arranged as a wheat sheaf cinched with a gold ribbon, over (now cracked) white opalescent glass.

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