Vindesorium - Windsor Castle seen from a Slope with Queen Elizabeth I surrounded by Guards, also a Shepherd with his Flock (after Joris Hoefnagel)
Frans Hogenberg (Mechelen c.1540 - Cologne c.1590)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1575
Materials
Etching on paper
Measurements
203 x 512 mm
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516088
Summary
Print, hand-coloured etching, Vindesorium - Windsor Castle seen from a Slope with Queen Elizabeth I surrounded by Guards, also a Shepherd with his Flock (after Joris Hoefnagel) by Frans Hogenberg (Mechelen c.1540 - Cologne c.1590). Six figures walking in foreground, stag hunt and Windsor castle beyond, shepherd and his flock down right. Pencil note in margin '21/-, ... and Hogenburg circa 1575'. Mounted on paper.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Makers and roles
Frans Hogenberg (Mechelen c.1540 - Cologne c.1590) after Joris Hoefnagel (Antwerp 1542 – Vienna 1601), artist