#gold braid

This portrait gives a good sense of Robert Dudley’s assertive, self-regarding, and ambitious character. It was painted when he was still a credible suitor for the hand of Elizabeth I. Dudley retained his status as the queen’s favorite his whole life and was rewarded with appointments in the royal household, and grants of land and titles. But he never won the ultimate prize of marrying the queen. In 1560 his wife, Amy Rosbart, was found dead at the foot of a flight of stairs. Though probably an accident, suggestions that Dudley had removed her to make way for the queen did lasting damage to his reputation. A patron of Continental artists, and always conscious of his image, he had the Italian painter Federico Zuccaro make pendant portraits of him and Elizabeth I in 1575. But by this point Dudley’s ambitions to marry the queen were thwarted, and thereafter he poured his energy into war against Catholic Spain.

Collection: Yale Center for british Art, New Haven, CT, United States

I was comparing Mipha’s earlier gear to her simpler Champion scarf. The blue sash-like thing and the gold braid are much like what Sidon wears. But also some of her jewelry that hangs about her neck changes too. 

Sketch by Chuck Jones, graphite on scrap paper, 7″ x 5″, circa late 1950s, early 1960s. 

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Oil painting on canvas, Mary Barber, Lady Jermyn (d.1679), British (English) School, 17th century. A three-quarter-length portrait of a woman, seated in a square-backed chair, facing left. She has brown curly hair and is wearing a low-cut, square-necked blue dress, edged with gold braid, with a fine lace collar and cuffs. She wears a string of large pearls and a pearl bracelet on each arm. Her right arm rests on the chair arm, her left in her lap.

Under the Act of Settlement passed by the English Parliament in 1701, Frederick was fourth in the line of succession to the British throne at birth, after his great-grandmother Sophia, Dowager Electress of Hanover; his grandfather George, Prince-Elector of Hanover; and his father, George. The Elector ascended the British throne in 1714. After his paternal grandfather died and his father became king in 1727, Frederick moved to Great Britain and was created Prince of Wales in 1729. He predeceased his father and upon the latter's death in 1760, the throne passed to Frederick's eldest son, George III.

Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (née Lady Mary FitzAlan; 1540 – 23/25 August 1557) was an English noblewoman and translator of the English language. The daughter and sole heiress of Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, she married Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk. She died as a teenager shortly after the birth of her son, the Saint Catholic Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel, who lived to unite the FitzAlans and Howards into one dynasty, with Arundel Castle as its seat.