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On display at V&A South Kensington
British Galleries, Room 57

Elizabeth I

Print
ca. 1603 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Crispijn De Passe (engraver)
Isaac Oliver (artist)
Place of origin
Cologne (printed)

Portrait of a woman, whole length, standing and turned slightly to right; the sitter s wearing a large ruff and an elaborate dress; in her left hand she holds an orb, in the right a sceptre; at the top right of the composition is a coat of arms.


Object details

Categories
Portraits
Prints
Royalty
Object type
Print
TitleElizabeth I (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, engraving by by Crispijn de Passe I after Isaac Oliver, ca. 1603.
Physical description
Portrait of a woman, whole length, standing and turned slightly to right; the sitter s wearing a large ruff and an elaborate dress; in her left hand she holds an orb, in the right a sceptre; at the top right of the composition is a coat of arms.
Dimensions
  • Border height: 31.7cm
  • Border width: 22.5cm
  • Plate height: 34.9cm
  • Plate width: 22.8cm
Dimensions taken from: Strong, Roy. Artists of the Tudor Court: the Portrait Miniature Rediscovered 1520-1620.. London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983.
Styles
Dutch School
Elizabethan
Tudor
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'POSVI DEVM ADIVTOREM MEVM / Mortua anno Misericordoae / Nata Gronewiciae anno Christi MDXXXIII. 6. Jd. Sept.' (Lettered within the design)
  • 'Elisabet D.G. Angliae, Franciae, Hiberniae, Et. Verginiae Regina, Fidei Christianae Propvgnatrix Acerrima Nvncin Dno Reoviescens.' (Lettered below)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Production
De Passe was probably sent a drawing by Oliver as the source from which this print was engraved.
Subjects depicted
Queen
Orb
Sceptre
Sword
Coat of Arms
Ruff
Crown
Elizabeth I
Bibliographic references
  • Strong, Roy. Artists of the Tudor Court: the Portrait Miniature Rediscovered 1520-1620. London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983.
  • Franken, Daniel. L’Oeuvre grave des Van De Passe. Amsterdam and Paris: F. Muller & Co., 1881.
  • O'Donoghue, Freeman. British Museum: Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1908-25.
  • Hind, Arthur Mayger. Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. London: Cambridge University Press, 1952-5, 3 v.
  • Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1949.
  • Strong, Roy. Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. xiv, 173 p. illus.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3288-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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