Serenissimo, Potentissimo, & Excekkentissimo Principi, Carolo DEI gratia Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Regi Fidei Defensori etc. c.1628
Engraving | 41.0 x 37.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 601534
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Engraving of Charles I as king. Bust length with long hair, closed ruff, embroidered doublet, and order on ribbon around neck. Within an oval border bearing Latin inscription, within a rectangular frame with Latin inscription below. Borders trimmed. Very fine. For the corresponding portrait of Henrietta Maria, see RCIN 602031.
Charles I and his consort, Henietta Maria (see RCIN 602031) were married in 1625, five weeks after Charles was proclaimed King following the death of his father, James I. Charles I commissioned the Dutch artist Daniel Mytens to paint himself and his new wife, and subsequently sent the portraits to Holland to be engraved by Willem Jacobsz Delff, who was paid '£5 for perusing two pictures of ye King and Queene in black and white to be cut in brasse.'
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41.0 x 37.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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