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Frontispiece of Natura Exenterata, London 1655 Lady Arundel's recipe collection was published a year after the Countess' death under the pseudonym Philiatros. Next to the front page the publication includes a half-length portrait of Lady Arundel, engraved by Hollar and based on van Dyck's famous Madagascar Portrait. The caption identifies portrait as of “The most Illustrious & most excellent Lady, the Lady Alathea Talbot & c. Countesse of Arundell & Surrey & the first Countesse of England...