Van der Doort c.1639
WS 110, № 31
Old [Nicholas] Hilliard
The 8th, Queen Elizabeth I, black dress and habit very richly adorned with gold and pearls, laced ruff, a picture box hanging at her right breast
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
2in x 1½in (5.1 x 3.8cm)
Medium:
oval card
Light:
light from the right
Frame:
in the first and least square frame 8 x 9 in [20.3 x 22.9], framing 8 pictures of your majesty's antecedents all as yet without crystals
Provenance:
Young [Laurence] Hilliard
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
bought
Location:
Room description extended:
4th Book containing all your Majesty's well limned pieces, kept at the moment in cupboards in the newly erected Cabinet Room, Whitehall
Original Manuscript page number:
Windsor MS., f. 55
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no 394, 23 x 23, frame for 8 miniatures
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51