Published to accompany the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Contents
From Whitehall to the Kremlin : the diplomacy and political culture of the English and Russian courts / Olga Dmitrieva -- Merchant-class portraiture in Tudor London : 'Customer' Smith's commission, 1579/80 / Karen Hearn -- English limning : the portrait miniature in Tudor and early Stuart England / Katherine Coombs -- 'Armes and bestes' : Tudor and Stuart heraldry / Maurice Howard and Tessa Murdoch -- Sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English silver in the Kremlin / Natalia Abramova -- Arms and armour / Angus Patterson -- 'Silks, velvets, cloths of gold and other such precious raiments' : clothing and furnishing in Tudor and Stuart courts / Clare Browne -- 'O, those jewels! The pride and glory of this kingdom!' / Richard Edgcumbe -- The Moscow coach : 'a rich chariot, one parcell of the great present' / Julian Munby
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-171) and index.
