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The sitter is wearing a light-brown dress with fur sleeves, her long hair is bound with a white ribbon with a head-dress and long bead ornaments hang down on each side of her face as lappets. Faint traces of tattoos are visible on her chin, in a series of lines running down and slightly radiating out from her lower lip. She is believed to be one of a family of five Eskimos (Inuit) brought to Britain from Labrador in North-Eastern Canada by George Cartwright in 1772. The sitter has traditionally been identified as Mecock (sometimes spelt Mycock or Mikak). However, although an Inuit woman of this name was brought to London in 1769, she was not part of the group which visited with George Cartwright in 1772. The latter included two women: Caubvick and Ickongogue.
The tattoos on the chin are very faint, and were invisible before the painting was conserved in 2003. Careful study during conservation suggests that they may have been painted over by the artist, and were not intended to be visible in the final version.
Hunterian Museum
London
Title
Portrait of Caubvick, an Inuit woman from Labrador
Date
c.1772
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 75 x W 63 cm
Accession number
RCSSC/P 243
Acquisition method
transferred from the Trustees of the Hunterian Collection, 1799
Work type
Painting
Hunterian Museum
The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 35–43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, Greater London WC2A 3PE England
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