print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1892,0714.536
- Title
- Object: The King on his Journey to the Scots
- Description
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King Charles I on horseback, accompanied by three other riders, holding a whip, looking at a courtier standing next to him, reading a message; more figures seated and standing in front of an inn at left, a woman seen in the door; proof illustration to 'Heath's Picturesque Annual', 1845, p.152; upper print of two different states, pasted onto the same backing sheet; after George Cattermole; state before cross-hatching on King's cloak and more shading on dress of reading figure. c1845
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1845 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 433 millimetres (backing sheet)
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Height: 140 millimetres (original sheet, cut)
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Width: 296 millimetres (backing sheet)
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Width: 207 millimetres (original sheet, cut)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1892,0714.539 for a touched proof of this state.
See 1892,0714.537 for another state, pasted onto the same backing sheet.
The print was also published as an illustration to Cattermole's 'The Great Civil War' in 1846.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: King Charles I fled Oxford 27 April 1646
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Heath's Picturesque Annual
- Acquisition date
- 1892
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1892,0714.536