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Record Number: ABB0057

Related Work: Kenilworth

Illustration Title/Caption: Queen Elizabeth

Keyword(s): Elizabeth, Queen of England - Portraits

Artist: Federico Zuccaro

Engraver: George B. Shaw

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 12 x 9

Date: 1844

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Abbotsford edition] (Edinburgh: Cadell, 1842-47)

Position in Source Text: vol. 6, facing p. 254

Location of Copy: ABD, WS E13, vol. 6

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Portrait of Queen Elizabeth, wearing a dress made out of a fabric featuring images of human eyes and ears. A reengraving of a portrait published in Edmund Lodge's 'Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain' (1821), where it appears as no. 1 in vol. 4, with slightly different background and shading, engraved by W. T. Fry. Also appears in Library Edition of the Waverley Novels, as vol. 12 frontispiece: see #LIB0023.

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