Unknown Lady, by Nicholas Hilliard

An image of Unknown Lady. Hilliard, Nicholas (British, 1537-1619). Watercolour on vellum, stuck to a playing-card with hearts on verso, which have been overpainted with brown watercolour, height 73 mm, width 53 mm, circa 1595. Acquired with money bequeathed by Mrs Coppinger Prichard in memory of her father, Thomas Waraker, LL.D., and with a grant from the National Art Collections Fund.

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Unknown Lady. Hilliard, Nicholas (British, 1537-1619). Watercolour on vellum, stuck to a playing-card with hearts on verso, which have been overpainted with brown watercolour, height 73 mm, width 53 mm, circa 1595. Acquired with money bequeathed by Mrs Coppinger Prichard in memory of her father, Thomas Waraker, LL.D., and with a grant from the National Art Collections Fund.

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Accession Number: 3898
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 780 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 625.73kB
Exposure time: 1/180
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2015:05:21 14:38:35

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16th Century _WF_ArtFund aristocracy aristocratic auburn beaded bodice British School brunette cherries cherry clothes clothing coiffure collar corset costume countess curls curly Elizabethan English fashion fashionable female Fitz_PDP fruits hair hairstyle high collar high hair Hilliard jewellery lace lace collar lacy lady miniature necklace Nicholas Hilliard nobility noblewoman oval painting pale portrait miniature portraits pretty puffed sleeve redhead Renaissance ringlets ruff sleeve society portraiture Tudor Period vellum watercolour woman young

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