Just as the Tudor monarchs gave New Year’s gifts, we present the gift of #RajivTakesTheMet ✨ Introducing a new series with beloved actor and jack-of-all-trades @rajivsurendra, who joins us at The Met to explore art that engages and inspires his creative practice. In this episode—calligraphy fans, unite! Rajiv and Met curator Adam Eaker marvel at the breathtaking New Year’s gift roll of Elizabeth I from 1585—complete with her majesty’s very own signature—inside “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England.”
 You’ve got one final day to see this gift roll at The Met! #MetTudors closes after January 8. Stay tuned for more adventures with Rajiv. 
 📜 New Year’s Gift Roll of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1585. Ink on vellum. Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.