Elizabeth Goldring

Sables, ruffs and doublets

Roy Strong returns to the silks, brocades, sables, ruffs and doublets of the court of Elizabeth I, glimpsed in paintings by Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver

  • The Elizabethan Image: An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558–1603

    Roy Strong

    Yale, pp. 224

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