The Plimpton Sieve Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I is an oil painting by English painter George Gower dated 1579, and now in the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.

It is one of three near-identical portraits of Elizabeth I by Gower that represent the queen holding a symbolic sieve.

His son, Francis T. P. Plimpton, willed it to the Folger.

[2] Three-quarter length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I holding a sieve, with a globe in the left background and the royal coat of arms on the right.

[3] The painting has three areas of text in yellow uppercase letters: There are at least two other versions of Gower's Sieve Portrait.