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 Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I: The Middle Years   (1573-1587)
 
 
 
 
 
 
|  Queen Elizabeth riding the chariot of Fame.
 Sir William Teshe, 1570. BL Sloane MS 1832.
 
 
 
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	|  "The Pelican Portrait", c. 1575.
 Attr. to Nicholas Hilliard.
 © Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Museums.
 
 
 |  "The Phoenix Portrait", c. 1575.
 Attr. to Nicholas Hilliard.
 © National Portrait Gallery, London.
 
 
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	|  "The Waddesdon Portrait", c. 1575.
 Attr. to Nicholas Hilliard.
 Private Collection, Rothschild Family.
 
 
 |  Queen Elizabeth, 17th c.
 Artist Unknown.
 Private Collection.
 
 
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	|  Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1572
 Miniature by Nicholas Hilliard.
 © National Portrait Gallery, London.
 
 
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 Elizabeth I, c1575.
 Nicholas Hilliard.
 Private Collection.
 
 
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	|  Queen Elizabeth, c.1575
 Nicholas Hilliard
 Private Collection.
 
 
 
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 Queen Elizabeth Lute Miniature,
 Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1576
 Berkeley Castle.
 
 
 
 |  |  Queen Elizabeth Receiving Dutch Ambassadors, 1570-1575.
 Artist Unknown. Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany.
 
 
 
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	|  "The Darnley Portrait", c. 1575.
 Attr. to Federico Zuccaro.
 © National Portrait Gallery, London.
 
 
 |  Sketch of Queen Elizabeth I, 1575.
 Federico Zuccaro.
 © British Museum.
 
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  Album Amicorum of a German Soldier
 (Stated Italy, 1595, but costume and
 headdress suggest c1580.—AJ.)
 Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
 
 
 
	|  Queen Elizabeth I, c.1580.
 Attr. to George Gower.
 
 |  Queen Elizabeth I, c.1580.
 Attr. to George Gower.
 Old Schools, University of Cambridge.
 
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	|  Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
 Studio of Marcus Gheeraerts?
 Government Art Collection, UK.
 
 |  Queen Elizabeth I, c.1580.
 Artist Unknown.
 © The Royal Collection.
 
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	|  Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
 Artist Unknown.
 Private Collection.
 
 
 |  Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
 Artist Unknown.
 Private Collection.
 
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	|  Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
 Artist Unknown. (Paint has turned blue)
 © National Portrait Gallery, London
 
 
 
 |  Queen Elizabeth with a Fan, 17th c.
 Artist Unknown.
 Richmond Town Hall.
 
 
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	|  Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
 Artist Unknown.
 Westminster School.
 |  Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
 Artist Unknown. (Paint has turned blue)
 © Reading Museum.
 
 
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  Elizabeth I in Parliament Robes, c1585-90.
 Artist Unknown (prev. attr. to Gheeraerts).
 Helmingham Hall, Stowmarket.
 
 
 
	
	|  Elizabeth Portrait Frontispiece
 from Saxton's Atlas (1579).
 
 
 
 |  Elizabeth Portrait Frontispiece
 from Saxton's Atlas (1579).
 
 
 
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	|  "The Plimpton Sieve Portrait", 1579.
 Attr. to George Gower.
 © Folger Shakespeare Library.
 
 
 |  "The Red Sieve Portrait", 1579.
 Attr. to George Gower.
 Private Collection.
 
 
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  "The Sieve Portrait", c. 1580-1583.
 Attr. to Quentin Metsys, the Younger.
 Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena.
 
 
 
	
	|  Copy of "The Sieve Portrait", c. 1583.
 Artist Unknown.
 Collection of the Duke of Hamilton.
 
 
 |  Queen Elizabeth I, c.1583.
 Unknown Artist.
 Eton College.
 
 
 
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	|  Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
 Unknown Artist.
 British Embassy, Portugal.
 [Government Art Collection, UK.]
 
 
 
 |  Queen Elizabeth I, c.1585
 After Quentin Metsys.
 Private collection.
 
 
 
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	|  Queen Elizabeth I, c.1580-85.
 Marcus Gheeraerts, the Younger.
 Private Collection.
 
 
 
 |  After "The Sieve Portrait", post-1583.
 After Quentin Metsys.
 Private Collection.
 
 
 
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	|  Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1575-80.
 Artist Unknown.
 Queen's College, Cambridge.
 
 
 
 |  Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1575-80.
 Attr. to Nicholas Hilliard.
 Ambras Castle, Austria.
 
 
 
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	|  Queen Elizabeth I, c.1585.
 Artist Unknown.
 
 
 
 |  Queen Elizabeth I, 1580s.
 Unknown Artist.
 Private Collection, via
 Philip Mould & Co.
 
 
 
 |  |  Queen Elizabeth Watercolour Miniature on Vellum, 1586-7.
 Nicholas Hilliard. ©Victoria and Albert Museum.
 
 
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	|  Elizabeth I, c. 1586.
 Nicholas Hilliard.
 The Rijksmuseum, Netherlands.
 
 
 
 |  Elizabeth I, c. 1585.
 Nicholas Hilliard.
 The Royal Collection.
 
 
 
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  Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Dancing, 1580s.
 Artist Unknown (although sometimes attributed to Gheeraerts).
 The Collection of Viscount de L'Isle, Penshurst Place, Kent.
 
 
 
 	
	
	|  "The Drewe Portrait", c. 1586.
 Attr. to George Gower.
 © Philip Mould Ltd.
 
 
 
 |  "The Kitchener Portrait", 1585-1590.
 Artist Unknown.
 Private Collection.
 
 
 
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	|  Queen Elizabeth I with a Fan, 1585-1590.
 Artist Unknown.
 © The Royal Collection.
 
 
 
 |  The Armillary Portrait, c.1585.
 Artist Unknown.
 Private Collection.
 
 
 
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	|  Queen Elizabeth with a Fan, 1585-1590.
 Attr. to John Bettes the Younger.
 Hever Castle, Kent.
 
 
 
 |  Queen Elizabeth I with a Fan, c.1585.
 Attr. to John Bettes the Younger.
 © National Portrait Gallery, London.
 
 
 
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	|  Queen Elizabeth I with a Fan, 1585-1590.
 Attr. to John Bettes the Younger.
 Private Collection.
 
 
 
 |  Queen Elizabeth I with a fan, c.1590.
 Attr. John Bettes the Younger.
 Pollok House, Glasgow.
 
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	|  "The Penshurst Portrait", c.1578.
 After Zucchero.
 Penshurst Place, Kent.
 © Viscount de L'isle.
 
 |  Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1585.
 Attr. to John Bettes the Younger.
 © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
 
 
 
 |   Queen Elizabeth I, late 16thC.
 After Zucchero.
 Amgueddfa Cymru—National Museum of Wales.
 
 
 
 
	
	|  Queen Elizabeth I with a Fan, 1585-1590.
 Artist Unknown.
 Private Collection.
 On Loan to Bristol Museums.
 
 
 
 |  Queen Elizabeth with a Fan, 1585-1590.
 Artist Unknown.
 The Yale Elizabethan Club.
 
 
 
 
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	|  "The Ermine Portrait", c.1585.
 Nicholas Hilliard.
 Hatfield House.
 
 
 
 |  Copy of the "Ermine Portrait",  after 1585.
 Unknown artist.
 Penrhyn Castle, Wales.
 
 
 
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	|  Elizabeth I, 1586-7.
 Nicholas Hilliard.
 Nationalmuseum, Sweden.
 
 
 
 |  Elizabeth I, 1583-7.
 Nicholas Hilliard,
 The Royal Collection.
 
 
 
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	|  "The Welbeck Portrait", c.1585.
 aka "Wanstead Portrait," "Peace Portrait."
 Marcus Gheeraerts, the Elder.
 Portland Collection, Harley Gallery.
 
 
 
 |  The Civilles Portrait, 1588.
 A copy of the "Peace Portrait."
 Artist unknown.
 Private Collection.
 
 
 
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 Medieval English Drama
 
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 London, 1510, the earliest view in print
 Map of England from Saxton's Descriptio Angliae, 1579
 Location Map of Elizabethan London
 Plan of the Bankside, Southwark, in Shakespeare's time
 Detail of Norden's Map of the Bankside, 1593
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