Edward Herbert, 1st Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1581/3–1648), by Isaac Oliver (c. 1565–1617) Watercolour on vellum mounted on panel, in a 17th-century tortoiseshell and ebonised frame. A miniature depicting Lord Herbert as a fashionable and melancholic young lover, with his head resting on his right hand as he lies stretched out on the banks of a stream in a shady forest, with a landscape visible beyond. A shield strapped to his left arm is decorated with a bleeding heart and the inscription ‘MAGICA SYMPATHIAE’. Two grooms are seen tending to his horse and armour nearby. A kinsman of the Herberts of Powis Castle, Lord Herbert lived at nearby Montgomery Castle.

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