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Sir Henry Slingsby, by Nicholas Hilliard

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An image of Sir Henry Slingsby 1560-1634. Hilliard, Nicholas (British, 1537-1619). Watercolour on vellum, stuck on card, with another gessoed card stuck to it, height 84 mm, width 63 mm, 1595.

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Sir Henry Slingsby 1560-1634. Hilliard, Nicholas (British, 1537-1619). Watercolour on vellum, stuck on card, with another gessoed card stuck to it, height 84 mm, width 63 mm, 1595.

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  • Accession Number: 3850
  • 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: 767 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 517.19kB
  • Exposure time: 1/180
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2015:05:21 14:31:57

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16th Century aristocracy aristocratic black black hats British School brocade clothes clothing collar costume doublet Elizabethan English fashion fashionable Fitz_PDP gentleman hair hairstyle hats Henry Slingsby Hilliard knight lace lacy male miniature motto Nicholas Hilliard nobility noble nobleman oval peer peerage portrait miniature portraits red Renaissance Sir Henry Slingsby society portraiture Tudor Period vellum watercolour well dressed

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