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Elizabeth I, Queen of England

Elizabeth I, Queen of England
 1603

Medium
engraving
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1962
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
engraving
Measurements
31.3 × 22.8 cm (image) 34.4 × 22.8 cm irreg. (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
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
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1962
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
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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