2-704-766 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Portrait of Queen Elizabeth, Wife of Edward IV and Member of the Skinners' Fraternity of Our Lady's Assumption', c1441-1689, (1948). Decorative manuscript page depicting Elizabeth Woodville (c1437-1492), Queen consort of England as the spouse of King Edward IV. She is shown wearing an ermine-trimmed robe and blue velvet cloak, against a field of stylised flowers. Illumination from "Book of the Fraternity of Our Lady's Assumption" in the collection of the Worshipful Company of Skinners, one of the livery companies of the City of London. From "The Guilds of the City of London", by Sir Ernest Pooley. [Collins, London, 1948]