Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Nicholas Hilliard, ca. 1547–1619, British
Title:
Portrait of a Lady
Date:
between 1600 and 1615
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache on vellum laid onto card
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 x 1 11/16 inches (5.1 x 4.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Engraved on back of frame center: "Elizabeth | Queen of Bohemia | daughter of | James 1st of England | Isaac Oliver"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1974.2.51
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
portrait
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill (Yale Center for British Art, 2009-10-15 - 2010-01-03)

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2010-03-06 - 2010-07-04)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

Drawing in England from Hilliard to Hogarth (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-09-19 - 1987-11-08)

Drawing in England from Hilliard to Hogarth (British Museum, 1987-06-18 - 1987-08-31)

English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 241, no. 2, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

British portraits : Winter exhibition, 1956-57., , , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1956, v. 1, p. 194, no. 633, N5054 A545 1956/57 v. 1 and 2 (YCBA) Alao available on Microfiche; Fiche B196, fiche #'s 1 - 4

Earl of Derby's Miniatures on loan to the Manchester Art Galleries, Connoisseur, vol. 141, June 1958, pp. 44-46, J10 +C762 (SML)

Mark Evans, Renaissance Watercolours, V&A Publishing, London, p. 193, fig. 156, ND1925 .E93 2020 (YCBA)

Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, pp. 3-4, No. 1, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Graham Reynolds, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver: An exhibition to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of Nicholas Hilliard, Ministry of education (UK), London, 1947, p. 35, no. 97, NJ18 H51 R48 (YCBA)

Cynthia Roman, Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2009, pp. 193, 318, cat. no. 176, fig. 21, N5247 W25 H67 2009 + (YCBA)

South Kensington Museum, Catalogue of the special exhibition of portrait miniatures on loan at the South Kensington museum, Whittingham and Wilkins, London, 1865, p. 162, no. 1812, N7616 S6 + Oversize (YCBA)

Lindsay Stainton, Drawing in England from Hilliard to Hogarth, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1987, p. 47, no. 1, NC228 S73 1987 (YCBA)

Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England, with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other artists , Vol. 1, Strawberry Hill Press, London, 1796, p. 256, Available online Available online from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)

Yale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 2, N590.2 A82 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11603