A heliogravure of 1883 on heavy wove paper with the portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England, covered in pearls and wearing a skirt embroidered with flowers, after the original oil attributed to Nicholas Hilliard in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
A heliogravure of 1883 on heavy wove paper with the portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England, covered in pearls and wearing a skirt embroidered with flowers, after the original oil attributed to Nicholas Hilliard in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619), limner to Elizabeth I, fixed the official image of the queen that this heliogravure carried three centuries later with a notable fidelity of tone.
Medium: heliogravure on heavy wove paper
Artist / after: attributed to Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619)
Date: 1883
Dimensions: Plate mark 7.2 x 9.7 in (18.3 x 24.7 cm); sheet 10.3 x 14.1 in (26.2 x 35.8 cm)
Condition: good; clean paper with wide margins