Vintage print :

" Sir Henry Lee "

" Aquarelle "

5 1/4" x 8 1/8" 

Undated, however this is a vintage print, published in the first half of the 1900s.

Good condition.

Includes the original (detached) plate-guard, with the title.

( see the photos )

Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.

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Historical information :

Sir Henry Lee KG (1533-1611), of Ditchley, was Queen's Champion and Master of the Armouries under Queen Elizabeth I of England. 

He was a knight of The Most Noble Order of the Garter, an order of chivalry founded by Edward III of England in 1348. It is the most senior order of knighthood in the British honours system.

Henry Lee was born in Kent in March 1533, the eldest son of Sir Anthony Lee (died 1549).

He became the champion of Queen Elizabeth I in 1570 and was appointed Master of the Armoury in 1580, an office which he held until his death. As Queen's Champion, Lee devised the Accession Day tilts held annually on 17 November, the most important Elizabethan court festival from the 1580s. 

He retired as Queen's Champion in 1590.

He was made a Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1597 and founded Aylesbury Grammar School in 1598.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Buckinghamshire in 1558, 1559, 1571 and 1572.

Lee built up an estate at Ditchley in Oxfordshire, from 1583; Queen Elizabeth visited him there.

( he was later noted for refusing to receive his monarch a second time, because of the enormous expense of a royal visit )

Sir Henry Lee was the cousin of Captain Thomas Lee, a troublesome soldier who was put to death in 1601 for an involvement in the treason of the 2nd Earl of Essex.

In 1601, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, led an abortive coup d'etat against the government of Queen Elizabeth I and was executed for treason )

King James VI and I and Anne of Denmark visited Sir Henry Lee at Ditchley on September 15, 1603.

Three suits of armor were made for Sir Henry Lee by the renowned Greenwich armoury.

He died on February 12th, 1611.