Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England, regent, wife of King Edward III, 1369. In crown, gold-wire reticulated headdress with pearls, long brocade gown, blue mantle, holding a sceptre. Standing in front of an ornate carved throne with cushion. From her tomb effigy in Westminster Abbey. Handcoloured copperplate engraving etched by John Augustus Atkinson, aquatinted by Havell, after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his own Selections of Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, Colnaghi and Co., London, 1814.

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