Queen Mary I

after Jacopo da Trezzo
line engraving, (circa 1555)
7 1/4 in. x 4 7/8 in. (183 mm x 124 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D17825

Sitterback to top

Queen Mary I (1516-1558), Reigned 1553-58; daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Sitter associated with 50 portraits.

Artistback to top

Jacopo da Trezzo (1519-1589), Medallist. Artist associated with 3 portraits.

Portrait setback to top

Macdonnell Collection

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Events of 1555back to top

Current affairs

Beginning of Queen Mary I's persecution of Protestants. Bishops Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer are denounced as heretics and burned at the stake in Oxford.
Queen Mary suffers a false pregnancy, her husband Philip of Spain leaves England.

Art and science

Richard Eden publishes The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, the first account in English of European exploration in the Americas. The book urges England to establish an empire in union with Spain.

International

The Peace of Augsburg between the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the members of the German Protestant Schmalkaldic League. The treaty gives Lutheranism official status within the empire through a policy of cuius regio, eius religio (whose the region, his the religion).
The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V resigns the government of the Netherlands, Naples, and Milan to his son Philip of Spain, husband of Queen Mary I.

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Peter Stiffell

15 July 2021, 15:33

This portrait was copied by Emanuel van Meteren (1535-1612) and published by Johannes Janssonius. It is possible that this engraving was repurposed for Emanuel van Meteren's "Historie der Nederlandscher ende haerder Naburen; Oorlogen ende Geschiedenissen (c.1614)

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