ELIZABETH I’s FUNERAL
Carved Head May Be Effigy (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, April 13. A carved wooden head, believed to be the funeral effigy for Queen Elizabeth I, has been put on show in London. Martin Holmes, assistant keeper of the British Museum, who carried out research on the head, said he believed it was kept in Westminster Abbey until 1760, and about six years later became part of a tableau representing the Queen, her horse and her page exhibited at the Tower of London. The figures were taken to London Museum in 1919 and placed in store in 1926. Mr Holmes said the head was in all probability part of the original funeral effigy of Queen Elizabeth. Careful cleaning had removed eighteenth century paint and a protective coating of dirt that lay beneath it, and revealed the original colouring to be of high quality.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28869, 14 April 1959, Page 22
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