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Charles II

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

John Chantry (engraver)
active from 1625, died ca. 1662 (Life dates)

Title

Charles II

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 15.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3751

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within border around frame, printed: Touch / not / my Anoynted / FEARE / GOD / HONOVR / THE KING.

Inscription: Recto: upper margin within image, printed: GODSAVE / THE KING.

Inscription: Recto: on left scroll within image, printed: The manner / how those / Bloody / Traytors / were dranne / from new gate / to place of Execution / murdered / Charles / the / first.

Inscription: Recto: on right scroll within image, printed: The end of / the Traitors / that Murdered / Charles the / first of / Blessed / Memory.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: CHARLES Ye 2d BY THE GRACE OF / GOD KING OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND / FRANCE & IRELAND Defender of ye faith / Began his Reign over his subjects the 30 of January 1648 / at the which time the bloody Regicides so barbarously murdered his father.

Inscription: Recto: lower right margin, printed: J Chantry Sculp

Stamp: Recto: upper right margin, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY.

Stamp: Recto: lower right margin, stamped: M.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre mount, handwritten in pencil: British School.

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