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Elizabeth I

Print
1598-1604 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print, portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, head and shoulders, facing slightly left, within an oval border with letters. In the upper corners a crown and sceptre, and a rose; in the lower corners, the arms of England and France.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleElizabeth I (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, engraving by Crispijn de Passe I, 1598-1604.
Physical description
Print, portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, head and shoulders, facing slightly left, within an oval border with letters. In the upper corners a crown and sceptre, and a rose; in the lower corners, the arms of England and France.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.7cm (cut)
  • Width: 9.8cm (cut)
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'Tantae…sponsam / Elisabeth Dei Gr: Angl. Fran: Hiber: Et Verginiae Regina Auspicatissima Cris. de. Pas. scul. et ex.' (Lettered with 6 lines of verse)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
This print was published as a plate in ffigies Regum Ac Principum…depictae, et tabellis aeneis incisae a Crispiano Passaeo Zelando, Colonge, 1598; and in Regiae Anglicae Majestatis Pictura… , published by Jan Jansen, Arnhem, 1604.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
  • Franken, Daniel. L’Oeuvre grave des Van De Passe. Amsterdam and Paris: F. Muller & Co., 1881.
  • Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1949.
  • 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.
  • O’Donoghue, Freeman M. A Descriptive and Classified Catalogue of Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I. London: B. Quartich, 1894.
  • Strong, Roy. Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. xiv, 173 p. illus.
Collection
Accession number
E.3002-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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