The Tomb of Elizabeth I

published 1620

Willem de Passe and Magdalena de Passe

Associated Names
Magdalena van de Passe

Artist, Dutch, 1600 - 1638

Willem de Passe

Artist, Dutch, probably 1598 - 1637

This is a drawing of a funerary monument. The drawing features an elaborate tomb or catafalque with an effigy of a figure lying beneath a grand archway. The monument is detailed with columns, coat of arms, heraldic symbols, decorative motifs, and a lion figure on top of the archway. Inscriptions and verses are found at the base of the monument, presented in mirror-flipped text. The composition conveys regal majesty and solemnity.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.2 × 11.9 cm (6 × 4 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.14.420

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 1955, Vol. 5 II, no. 10

  • Series Title

    Heroologia Anglica… (plate 40)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

W. B. Dukes [d. 1942], London, (L.2757a); (Sotheby, London, sale July 8, 1942, no. 112); Hermann Marx [d. 1948], Surrey, (L.2816a); (Sotheby, London, sale May 24, 1948, no. 165); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891 - 1979], Philadelphia, (L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1950.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1955

  • Hind, Arthur M. Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 3 vols. Cambridge: University Press, 1955.

Wikidata ID

Q65087256

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