HORACE HONE A.R.A. (IRISH 1754/6-1825) Portrait miniature of an unknown Lady, circa 1790 wearing a fashionable fur trimmed blue cloak over a white dress, a bandeau in her short brown curling hair Watercolour on ivory Gold frame, the reverse glazed to reveal lock of hair tied with gold wire and seed pearls, on opalescent glass Oval, 67 mm (2 3/4 in) high Exhibited: Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009 Literature: Paul Caffrey, John Comerford and the Portrait Miniature in Ireland c 1620-1850, Kilkenny Archaeological Society, 1999, p. 30, Number 52, illustrated in colour p. 37; The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp 8, 34 (# 119)