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Elizabeth I, Queen of England

Crispijn de PASSE the elder (engraver), Isaac OLIVIER I (after)
Elizabeth I, Queen of England
 1603

Medium
engraving

Measurements
31.3 × 22.8 cm (image) 34.4 × 22.8 cm irreg. (sheet, trimmed within platemark)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1962

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Hollstein 712 iii/iii

Edition
3rd of 3 states

Printing/Publishing
printed by Crispijn de Passe the elder; published by Hans Woutneel, London

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) u.l.: Mortua anno / MIserICorDIæ.
printed in ink (in image) u.c.: POSVI DEVM ADIVTOREM MEVM.
printed in ink (in image) u.r.: (heraldic insignia) / Nata Gronewiciæ / anno Christi / MDXXXIII. / 6. Jd. Sept.
printed in ink l.l.: ELISABET D.G.ANGLIAE, FRANCIAE, HIBERNIAE, ET VERGINIAE REGINA. / FIDEI CHRISTIANAE PROPVGNATRIX ACERRIMA. NVNCIN DNO REQVIESCENS.
printed in ink l.c.l.: Virginis os habitumque geris, diuina virago, / Sed supra sexum dotes animumque virilem; / Quod sæpe altarum docuit rerum exitus ingens: / Unde tibi et Regni populi debere fatentur, / Christiadumque cohors. Odÿs rumpantur vt hostes, / Quorum Diua tua rabies morte lucrata est.
printed in ink l.c.: Vas ta Semiramiden Babylon super æthera collat, / Efferat et Didona suam Sidonia tellus, / Gens Es thren Iudæa, Camillam Volsca propago, / Aut Constantini matrem Byzantion ingens, / Atque alias aliæ gentes: tete Anglia fortis / Ut quondam fructa est, sic nunc clarescat alumna. / P. B. M. Q. Iudeb.
printed in ink l.r.: Isaac Oliuier / effigiabat. / Crispin van de Passe / incidebat. / procurante Joanne / Waldnelio.

Accession Number
1226-5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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Subjects (general)
Another Work Law, Civics and Protest Portraits

Subjects (specific)
crowns (headdresses) Elizabeth I, Queen of England full-length figures orbs queens (people) reproductive prints rulers (people) sceptres

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