An engraving of Anne of Austria, Queen of Spain (1549-1580). A bust portrait, wearing small plumed bonnet upon puffed hair, huge ruff, plain bodice, jewelled chain. The portrait is framed within a circular border with a Latin inscription. This print is lettered around the portrait: "ANNA DEI GRATIA MAXIMILIANI IMP: FILIA, RVDOLFI CAES: SOROR, PHILIPPI CATHOL: HISP: REG: VXOR. 1598"; along the bottom: "Maximus hanc genuit pater Aemilianus in agris … / Iunctáque connubio magne Philippe tibi. // Crisp. de Pass. excu." This print is part of a group of portraits of French queens and noblewomen by Crispijn de Passe I in the Cassiano collection, where the sitter is shown bust-length in a lettered roundel, beneath which are lines of verse. This print formed part of an album of French royal portrait prints assembled by Cassiano dal Pozzo in Rome and described in an early nineteenth-century inventory of prints in George III’s library as Kings of France, Queens and other illustrious Personages. The album was arranged chronologically, with kings and their consorts together, while the latter part of the album was devoted to the female aristocracy of France. It was dismantled later in the nineteenth century and its prints incorporated into the series of Engraved Royal Portraits (organised dynastically). For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. 1303.