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Queen Elizabeth I 1533-1603
Miniaturist: Hilliard, Nicholas
History note: A. Wylies; F. Leverton Harris
Height: 58 mm
Width: 45 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, Frederick Leverton
1595 CE - 1600 CE
Support composed of vellum (skin) ( on card)
Watercolour : Watercolour on vellum stuck to card with another, but modern, piece of card glued to the back
Accession number: 3761
Primary reference Number: 17991
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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