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Nicholas Hilliard 1547-1619
Portrait of Elizabeth I
About 1586-7
Watercolour on vellum, stuck to pasteboard; set into a vellum mount in the 17th century
Inscribed on the mount in Latin 'Elizabeth Queen of England'
Museum no. P.23-1975
Bequeathed by Mrs Doris Herschorn

Elizabeth was now about 53.As she grew older poets and painters increasingly emphasised her supposedly divine power. Late portraits of the queen were rarely simple likenesses. Here, the crescent moon jewel in her hair symbolises the goddess Diana.

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