BIB_ID
204801
Accession number
MA 10583
Creator
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, engraver.
Published
London : [s.n.], 1743.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 17 7/8 x 21 5/8 in. (453 x 592 mm.)
Notes
Picture caption, on separate sheet, attached lower left side: In this print are the portraits of the earl of Leicester, Henry lord Hunsdon, Wm. lord Burleigh, Charles lord Howard, afterwards earl of Nottingham; lady Hunsdon, Elizabeth sister of lord Hunsdon, and wife of lord Howard, &c. The painting was mistaken for a procession to St. Paul's, till Vertue ascertained the history of it. The original is in the possession of lord Digby.
Picture caption, printed below image and title: The original of the picture was painted (in oyl) at the command of this Noble Lord Hunsdon (cir. 1580) and is now in the possession of the Rt. Honble. the Lord Digby, who permitted a linning to be taken in water colours for the Rt. Honble. Edward Earl of Oxford & Mortimer, and this plate to be engraved by their most humble and obedient servant Geo. Vertue 1743.
Picture caption, printed below image and title: The original of the picture was painted (in oyl) at the command of this Noble Lord Hunsdon (cir. 1580) and is now in the possession of the Rt. Honble. the Lord Digby, who permitted a linning to be taken in water colours for the Rt. Honble. Edward Earl of Oxford & Mortimer, and this plate to be engraved by their most humble and obedient servant Geo. Vertue 1743.
Inscriptions/Markings
Stamped on verso, in blue ink: 1098.
Summary
Street scene of a procession carrying Elizabeth I, Queen of Great Britain through a crowded street.
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