Terms and conditions of use
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)
- 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
