Francis Delaram¿¿¿s Print of Queen Elizabeth: Charles I¿¿¿s Message of Elizabethan Pax

Undergraduate: Grace Ketron

Faculty Advisor: Tania String
Department: Journalism & Mass Communication

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My research concerns Delaram's Print of Queen Elizabeth I, which I studied and wrote about from the Ackland Art Museum's collection and will share for the "Arts in England" panel. My research discusses why a print of Queen Elizabeth I would have circulated during the later reign of Charles I. Because prints were utilized to spread mass messages, Francis Delaram¿¿¿s Print of Queen Elizabeth, which probably circulated around England in 1630, sought to communicate a message of stability and to reinforce the concept of the Elizabethan pax, or peace, as the economically, politically, religiously, and militaristically tumultuous reign of Charles I attempted to stabilize itself in England. The monarch never dies, at least figuratively. Henceforth, Charles I attempted to use the 1630 print and an earlier 1625 version of the same print to create nostalgia for Elizabeth¿¿¿s ¿¿¿golden age of pax,¿¿¿ thereby demonstrating his ability to rule well as a monarch in the footsteps of the successful and beloved Queen.