print
- Museum number
- 1873,0510.3000
- Title
- Object: Isabella Valesia Regina di Spagna
- Description
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In a series of portraits entitled, 'Imagines quorundam principum et illustrium virorum'; a portrait of Elizabeth of France, third wife of Philip II, represented as a sculpted bust, turned to the left, wearing a high-necked bodice with a frilled collar; in a lettered oval, represented in a decorative setting with garlands and grotesque heads. c.1568
Engraving
- Production date
- 1568
- Dimensions
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Height: 178 millimetres
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Width: 130 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is in an Italian portrait series entitled "Imagines quorundam principum et illustrium virorum" (also titled "Ritratti di alcuni prencipi, et huomini illustri") published by Bolognino Zaltieri in Venice in 1568. The prints are made by different Italian printmakers, including Domenico Zenoi, Nicolo Nelli and Martin Rota. The British Museum keeps 61 portraits belonging to this series (1873,0510.2951-3012).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1873,0510.3000