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Queen Elizabeth, Burleigh, and Walsingham
Frontispiece to The Compleat Ambassador
Queen Elizabeth, Burleigh, and Walsingham
William Faithorne, Sr. (English, 1616–1691)
1655
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 28.8 × 16.7 cm (11 5/16 × 6 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 29.2 × 17.4 cm (11 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.)
Mount: 35.4 × 24.3 cm (13 15/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 29.2 × 17.4 cm (11 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.)
Mount: 35.4 × 24.3 cm (13 15/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP9326
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Fagan, p. 4 18
DescriptionPublished in and extracted from: Sir Dudley Digges, The compleat ambassador, or, Two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu. Elizabeth of glorious memory: comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham, her resident in France : together with the answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho. Smith, and others: wherein, as in a clear mirror, may be seen the faces of the two courts of England and France, as they then stood, with many remarkable passages of state ... . (London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, and are to be sold at their shop ..., 1655).
The frontispiece was reengraved and used for the 1691 edition of Digges's treatise, retitled Cabala. The MFA owns an impression of the later state of the frontispiece (accession number 01.8774).
The frontispiece was reengraved and used for the 1691 edition of Digges's treatise, retitled Cabala. The MFA owns an impression of the later state of the frontispiece (accession number 01.8774).
Signed
In plate, at lower right: Gu: Faythorne
InscriptionsIn plate, in banderole at left: Lo. Burleigh.
In plate, in banderole at right: Sr. Fr. Walsingham.
In plate, in cartouche at lower center: The / Compleat Ambassador: / or, two / Treaties of the intended marriage / of Qu: Elizabeth of Glorious memory; Comprised in / Letters of Negotiation of Sr. Fra: Walsingham (her res= / ident in France) together with the Answers of the / Lord Burleigh, the Earle of Leicester, Sr. Thomas / Smith, and others. / Faythfully Collected by the truly Honourable, / Sr.Dudley Diggs Kt. late Mr of the Rolls. / Sold by Ga: Bedell, and Tho: Collins, at the Middle Temple gate: / 1655
In plate, at lower right: Gu: Faythorne sculp:
In plate, in banderole at right: Sr. Fr. Walsingham.
In plate, in cartouche at lower center: The / Compleat Ambassador: / or, two / Treaties of the intended marriage / of Qu: Elizabeth of Glorious memory; Comprised in / Letters of Negotiation of Sr. Fra: Walsingham (her res= / ident in France) together with the Answers of the / Lord Burleigh, the Earle of Leicester, Sr. Thomas / Smith, and others. / Faythfully Collected by the truly Honourable, / Sr.Dudley Diggs Kt. late Mr of the Rolls. / Sold by Ga: Bedell, and Tho: Collins, at the Middle Temple gate: / 1655
In plate, at lower right: Gu: Faythorne sculp: