Arrival of Queen Elizabeth I at Nonesuch Palace and men and women from Tudor society,...

Inscription reads: 'The Royal Palace in the Kingdom of England, called Nonsuch. Nowhere is there anything the like'; view from the south of this favourite residence of Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Queen of England (1558-1603); Henry VIII commissioned the building of Nonsuch in 1538 to celebrate the birth of his son, Edward, to glorify the Tudor dynasty and to emulate the French Renaissance chateaux of Francois I (1494-1547); below (L to R); English maidens, wives of merchants, noble lady-in-waiting, country people, fish seller, water carrier; illustration based on Hoefnagel's drawing of Nonsuch made in 1582 and reproduced in 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' by Braun & Hogenberg, published in Cologne;