Van der Doort c.1639

Old [Nicholas] Hilliard

Queen Elizabeth, profile in the clouds with some gold letters on them, with one hand and a little landscape by (holding her right hand at her breast, in a laced ruff adorned with pearls and gold)

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 112, № 41
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
1¾in x 1½in (4.4 x 3.8cm)
Light: 
light coming neither from the right or left being done without any shadows in an open garden light
Frame: 
under crystal in a black round turned jet box
Provenance: 
Earl of Arundel
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
Gift
Notes: 
3 pictures of Queen Elizabeth
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. 63 and MS. Ash. 1514, f. 128
Interpreting the text: 
Text in brackets from the Ashmolean MS.
Identification certainty: 
Unknown