Elizabeth R;

by Roy Strong, Julia Trevelyan Oman

Dust jacket shows minor shelf wear. Price in pencil on inside jacket. Pages immaculate, no bumping of corners, tight binding. Ships fast from Northern California.

79 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Sir Roy Colin Strong FRSL (23 August 1935 - ) is an English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer.

He has been director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He was knighted in 1983.

Reviews

[₵oincidental Ðandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This very slim volume on Elizabeth I is unlike any I have ever read about the Queen. Variously composed of Hilliard miniatures, engravings and assorted details borrowed from portrait paintings, and peppered throughout with quotes from Elizabeth's contemporaries (including a couple of her more famous speeches, as well as a snippet of one of the two poems ever to have been certainly attributed to her own hand), the primary focus of this uncommon sliver of a book are the accoutrements of the Queen's carefully-controlled image (jewels, fans, wardrobe, and other such outer trappings), including some of the more significant (allegorical) symbols that were employed to communicate & assert the prestige & prosperity of her reign to the rest of Europe. As it is so slim (it can easily be read within an hour), however, it only affords the barest of character sketches; still, it all makes for an enchanting gem of a book.

[Michael P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is a trifle, but quite a nice trifle. It is not really the catalog on the National Portrait Gallery show on images on Elizabeth I, but more of a small commemorative book. The images are well chosen, but indifferently printed, the readings good, but brief, and the text informative as far as it goes, which is not very far. It would be wrong, however, to ding this book for not being what it does not try to be. It achieves what it wants to achieve fairly well.