print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1858,1009.158
- Title
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Object: Treachery of Elfrida
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Series: Bowyer's history of England
- Description
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Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; Edward on horseback arriving at Corfe Castle, offered a cup of mead by Queen Elfrida standing at right, as one of her party prepares to stab the King at left. 1806
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1806
- Dimensions
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Height: 469 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 334 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A different version of the same subject also after Smirke appears in Camden's History of England (probably a re-publication of an earlier plate), engraved by Anker Smith (see 1872,0113.33).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: History of England
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1858,1009.158