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Serenissiae Potentissimae, Excellentissimaegs Principis, Henricae Mariae Dei gratia Magna Brittaniae Franciae et Hiberniae Reginae etc c.1630
Engraving | 40.8 x 37.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 602031
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Engraving of Henrietta Maria as queen. Bust length with curled hair with pearls, pearl earrings and necklace, open lace collar, low gown, and lace bodice with pearl ropes. Within an oval border bearing Latin inscription. Very fine. For the corresponding portrait of Charles I, see RCIN 601534.
Henietta Maria married Charles I (see RCIN 601534) 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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40.8 x 37.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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