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Representations of two portrait miniatures, Queen Elizabeth and Sir Francis Drake [drawing].

BIB_ID
207020
Accession number
MA 10775
Published
[England : s.n., 190-]
Description
1 sheet : aquatint gravure and color drawing; approx. 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (85 x 60 mm.)
Notes
In pencil, written below the drawing of the Sir Francis Drake portrait miniature: Sir Francis Drake, copied by Matthew Wyatt, from a miniature of the same size belonging to Mr. Doddington [...].
Mounted on same sheet as MA 10776 (5b).
The aquatint gravures of the Elizabeth I portrait miniature and case are extra illustrations from the series created for the Catalogue of the collection of miniatures: The property of J. Pierpont Morgan. (1906-1908) According to the bound volumes of this catalogue, the illustrations were created by Hallett Hyatt.
Summary
Representations of two portrait miniatures. On the left, a drawing, portrait only of Sir Francis Drake, shown head-and-shoulders. On the right, an aquatint gravure showing front and back of casing and inside portrait of Elizabeth I, head-and-shoulders.
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