BIB_ID
199041
Accession number
MA 10036
Creator
White, Robert, 1645-1703, engraver.
Published
[16--?]
Description
1 print : engraving ; 6 1/4 x 3 7/8 in. (160 x 99 mm.)
Notes
Picture caption, below image, from Tacitus' Histories: Alij diutius Imperium tenuerunt, nemo tam fortiter reliquit. Tacit. Histor. Lib 2.c.47, p. 417. Translation: Others held power for longer, but no one relinquished it so bravely.
Inscriptions/Markings
On verso, in pencil: 104.
Summary
Full-length portrait, kneeling, facing right.
Heavily symbolic image including a crown of thorns in King Charles' hand, his crown at his feet, a celestial crown above his head with the words "Beatam Æternam" written around the band, an open book before him bearing the words "In verbo tu Spea mea", a ship in the background in rough waters caused by blowing winds, and phrases in Latin coming from the sky and on banners at his feet.
Heavily symbolic image including a crown of thorns in King Charles' hand, his crown at his feet, a celestial crown above his head with the words "Beatam Æternam" written around the band, an open book before him bearing the words "In verbo tu Spea mea", a ship in the background in rough waters caused by blowing winds, and phrases in Latin coming from the sky and on banners at his feet.
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