We don’t have an image of this object online yet. V&A Images may have a photograph that we can’t show online, but it may be possible to supply one to you. Email us at vaimages@vam.ac.uk for guidance about fees and timescales, quoting the accession number: E.3276-1960
Find out about our images

Image of Gallery in South Kensington
Request to view at the Prints & Drawings Study Room, level D , Case PS, Shelf 36

Queen Christina of Sweden

Print
1696 (published)
Artist/Maker
Paulus Pontius (engraver)
Anselmus Von Hulle (artist)
Place of origin
Rotterdam (published)

Print, portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, facing half right, within an oval frame with palms and letters. The frame is supported on a semicircular plinth with swags of fruit, trumpets and a cartouche. The frame is flanked by the figures of Minerva and Apollo holding a crown of laurels above the portrait. Minerva on the left is wearing a helmet and holding a lance, with books and a globe at her feet; Apollo, on the right, is holding a lyre. Behind is drapery with tassels.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Royalty
Gender and Sexuality
Object type
Print
TitleQueen Christina of Sweden (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Queen Christina of Sweden, engraving by Paulus Pontius after Anselmus von Hulle, 1696.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, facing half right, within an oval frame with palms and letters. The frame is supported on a semicircular plinth with swags of fruit, trumpets and a cartouche. The frame is flanked by the figures of Minerva and Apollo holding a crown of laurels above the portrait. Minerva on the left is wearing a helmet and holding a lance, with books and a globe at her feet; Apollo, on the right, is holding a lyre. Behind is drapery with tassels.
Dimensions
  • Height: 39.1cm
  • Width: 29.5cm
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
Flemish School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Quo Fata Vocant Virtus Secura Sequetur. Accessit Privilegium Caesareum Cum Privilegio Regum et Hollandiae ordinum. Anselmus van Hulle pinxit et Paulus Pontius sculpsit.' (Lettered with name of sitter and)
  • '4' (Numbered)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
This print is plate 4 in Pacificatores Orbis Christiani Sive Icones Principum Ducum et Legatorum, Rotterdam, 1696.
Subjects depicted
Cartouche
Queen
Fruit
Lyre
Helmet
Lance
Laurels
Trumpets
Christina
Minerva
Apollo
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.
  • Singer, Hans Wolfgang. Allgemeiner Bildinskatalog. Leipzig: K.W. Hiersemann, 14 v.
  • Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1949.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3276-1960

About this object record

Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images. It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum. Some of our records may contain offensive and discriminatory language, or reflect outdated ideas, practice and analysis. We are committed to addressing these issues, and to review and update our records accordingly.

You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.

Suggest feedback

Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O564307/queen-christina-of-sweden-print-paulus-pontius/
Download as: JSON