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Nicholas Hilliard (British, 1547-1619)
A girl of the Elizabethan court, aged 6, in elaborate dress and lace ruff, inscribed and dated in the blue background ‘Ano Dni 1586 / ac ano AEtatis sue 6’; gold border
On vellum
Oval, 52 mm. high, gilt-metal frame with spiral cresting
A girl of the Elizabethan court, aged 6, in elaborate dress and lace ruff, inscribed and dated in the blue background ‘Ano Dni 1586 / ac ano AEtatis sue 6’; gold border
On vellum
Oval, 52 mm. high, gilt-metal frame with spiral cresting
Provenance
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne and Zurich, 14 May 1936, lot 950.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0165 and 291).
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0165 and 291).
Literature
von der Mühll 1947, p. 42, illustrated in colour no. 17.
Foskett 1972, I, illustrated colour plate VII, fig. 23.
Foskett 1972, I, illustrated colour plate VII, fig. 23.
Exhibited
Zurich 1957-58 and 1961.
Edinburgh 1975, no. 9, illustrated.
Edinburgh 1975, no. 9, illustrated.
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