print
- Museum number
- 1863,0808.55
- Title
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Object: Elizabeth, Queen of K. Henry VII
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Series: Birch's Heads
- Description
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Portrait of Elizabeth of York, bust-length, in an oval lettered with the title, slightly turned to the right, one hand across her chest, dressed in an ermine-trimmed gown with a headdress over her hair and a necklace about her neck, a vignette below with her marriage to Henry VII presided over by a priest and accompanied by courtiers, drapery billowing from the right, Cupid leaning on the parapet holding his arrows and standing upon a mask and serpent, roses growing in the foreground; state with publisher's name.
Engraving and etching
- Production date
- 1747
- Dimensions
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Height: 365 millimetres
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Width: 230 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the series see also 1844,0511.13. For an impression of another state see K,68.76. For impressions of an earlier state see 1868,0822.6729.
This plate was engraved in Amsterdam.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, Engraved by Mr Houbraken and by Mr Vertue
- Acquisition date
- 1863
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1863,0808.55