Title:
'Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke', c1600, (1942). Creator: Paulus van Somer.
Caption:
'Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke', c1600, (1942). Portrait of author, playwright and poet Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621), one of the first English women to achieve a major reputation for her poetry and literary patronage. After an oil painting made late 16th-early 17th century. From "English Women", by Edith Sitwell. [Collins, London, 1942]