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Princess Elizabeth, later Queen of Bohemia

Portrait Miniature
1606-1609 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Hilliard, Nicholas (artist)
Place of origin
England (painted)

Portrait miniature of Princess Elizabeth in an oval frame; half length, looking to front. Four diamonds which have been painted black are visible on the reverse of the support.

Object details

Categories
Royalty
Portraits
Paintings
Fashion
Hair and Hairstyles
Clothing
Jewellery
Object type
Portrait miniature
TitlePrincess Elizabeth, later Queen of Bohemia (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour on vellum stuck onto a playing card
Watercolour
Vellum
Painting
Brief description
Portrait miniature of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James I, later Queen of Bohemia, watercolour on velllum, painted by Nicholas Hilliard, 1606-1609.
Physical description
Portrait miniature of Princess Elizabeth in an oval frame; half length, looking to front. Four diamonds which have been painted black are visible on the reverse of the support.
Dimensions
  • Height: 53mm
  • Width: 43mm
Dimensions taken from: Strong, Roy. Artists of the Tudor Court: the Portrait Miniature Rediscovered 1520-1620.. London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983.
Content description
Portrait of a girl, half length, looking to front. The sitter is wearing a rich white dress with a high collar. Around her neck she wears necklace and her hair is adorned with jewels.
Styles
Stuart
English School
Jacobean
Gallery label
Nicholas Hilliard 1547-1619
Princess Elizabeth
About 1606-9

Elizabeth was James I's only daughter, born in 1596. She married the future King of Bohemia in 1613 and became known as 'Elizabeth of Behemia'. Her grandson became George I, the first Hanoverian king of Great Britain.

Watercolour on vellum, stuck to a playing card

Museum no. P.4-1937
Subjects depicted
Princess
Flower
Jewellery
Necklace
Elizabeth (Queen of Bohemia)
Associated object
P.3-1937 (Pair)
Bibliographic references
  • Strong, Roy. Artists of the Tudor Court: the Portrait Miniature Rediscovered 1520-1620. London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1937, London: Board of Education, 1938.
  • p. 190 Catharine MacLeod with Rab MacGibbon, Victoria Button, Katherine Coombs and Alan Derbyshire.‎ Elizabethan treasures : miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver. London : National Portrait Gallery, 2019.‎ ISBN: 9781855147027‎
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
P.4-1937

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Record createdJuly 8, 2003
Record URL
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