illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1866,1208.245-259
- Description
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'The great civil war of Charles I. and the parliament. By the Rev. Richard Cattermole, B. D. With thirteen highly-finished engravings, from drawings by George Cattermole, esq. and portraits of Charles I. and Oliver Cromwell, after Vandyke, under the superintendence of Mr. Charles Heath. Vol. II. Being Heath's Picturesque Annual for 1845' (London: Longman & Co) 1845; containing frontispiece of 'Queen Henrietta interceding for the King', title-page with vignette showing how 'Many fair mansions were plundered & despoiled', and 13 etchings/engravings with tissue guards by various printemakers, mostly after Cattermole: 1. portrait of Charles I after Van Dyck, 2. Destruction of the Property if Royalists, 3. portrait of Oliver Cromwell after Van Dyck, 4. Battle of Naseby, 5. Montrose's retreat to the Highlands, 6. The king on his journey to the Soots, 7. Seizure of the king at Holdenby, 8. Col. Pride excluding the members obnoxious to the army from the House of Commons, 9. The Scots pursued after the Battle of Preston, 10. Conference at the Isle of Wright, 11. Hammond discovering the king's attempted escape from Carisbrook, 12. Cromwell confering with the lawyers, 13. Cromwell viewing the body f the king. Together with preface and list of engravings. Bound in brown cloth with blind tooling and ornamental gold tooled image on front cover, gold lettering on spine, gilt edges.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1845
- Dimensions
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Height: 233 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 163 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1866,1208.230-244 for volume I.
Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: English Civil War 1642-1651
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Great Civil War of Charles I, and the Parliament
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1866,1208.245-259
