Title

Cameo carved with the portrait of Elizabeth I, c1575. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Cameo carved with the portrait of Elizabeth I, c1575. The queen in profile, wearing a ruff. An example of the type often presented by the queen to favoured people. From the Cheapside Hoard, part of a goldsmith's stock found buried beneath a floor in Cheapside, in the City of London.
Museum of London

Date

1575

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Museum of London

Reference

HRM19A83_051

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (1,7Mb) / 11,9in x 16,3in / 3579 x 4885 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people monarch clothes color colour profile queen royal dress jewellery jewelry century collar royalty lady artefact lace artifact ruff Hoard onyx 16th century cameo sixteenth century Museum of London Cheapside hoard Elizabethan sovereign Queen Elizabeth I Queen Elizabeth portrait object Queen of England Unknown Elizabeth I Elizabeth Tudor object portrait