this makes me to remember the wourds also and reasoning of her majestie, when first I came in her highnes presence to drawe [i.e. paint], whoe after showing me howe shee notied great difference of shadowing in the works, and diuersity of Drawers of sundry nations, … chosse her place to sit … in the open ally of a goodly garden, where no tree was neere, nor anye shadowe at all.
Nicholas Hilliard, The Arte of Limning (ca. 1598–1603)
