Unknown Lady, by Nicholas Hilliard

An image of Unknown Lady. Hilliard, Nicholas (British, 1537-1619). Watercolour on vellum, which has been relaid on modern card, height 182 mm, width 122 mm, circa 1595.

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Unknown Lady. Hilliard, Nicholas (British, 1537-1619). Watercolour on vellum, which has been relaid on modern card, height 182 mm, width 122 mm, circa 1595.

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Accession Number: PD.209-1961
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 714 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 677.35kB
Exposure time: 1/180
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2015:05:21 13:40:22

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16th Century aristocracy aristocratic bodice British School corset costume dress Elizabethan English fashion fashionable female Fitz_PDP full length hair hairstyle Hilliard lady miniature Nicholas Hilliard nobility noble noblewoman portrait miniature portraits puffed sleeve ruff sleeve society portraiture Tudor Period vellum watercolour woman

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