Title

'Queen Elizabeth Receiving the French Ambassadors after the Massacre of St,

Caption

'Queen Elizabeth Receiving the French Ambassadors after the Massacre of St. Bartholomew', 1890. Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I of England's ambassador to France, barely escaped with his life following the 1592 St Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

Date

1890

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F24_389

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,6Mb (2,7Mb) / 19,7in x 12,0in / 5899 x 3588 (300dpi)

Keywords

England female women woman people male interior event man men arts country French France monarch book guy British English royal location century Britain inside literature royalty lady concept bowing B&W MONOCHROME red carpet Day 19th century Indoors black & white black and white B W 16th century massacre nineteenth century sixteenth century history historic The Print Collector ambassador courtier Elizabethan sovereign St Bartholomew's Day Massacre Queen Elizabeth I Sir Francis Walsingham Queen Elizabeth Queen engraving portrait Queen of England Unknown Francis Elizabeth I Elizabeth Tudor Walsingham Sir Francis Francis Walsingham Cassells Edmund Co Cassell & Co Edmund Ollier Ollier Cassell and Company Ltd Cassell & Company Queen Bess Cassell & Queen Elizabeth I of England Elizabeth I of England Cassell's Illustrated Universal History modern history St Bartholomew Massacre engraving portrait