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Charles, Prince of Wales

Print
1643 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print, portrait of a boy, half-length, facing half right, within an oval boirder with letters.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleCharles, Prince of Wales (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Charles when Prince of Wales, engraving by Cornelis van Dalen, 1643.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a boy, half-length, facing half right, within an oval boirder with letters.
DimensionsNo dimensions given in accession record.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Flourish brave Prince…thy Fame.' (Lettered with name of sitter etc., 2 lines of Latin verse and 2 lines of English verse )
  • (With the mark of the collection of the William Salt Library, Stafford (Lugt 2259a))
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
This print was published as the frontispiece to Sir Richard Baker’s Chronicle of Kings of England, 1643.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Corbett, Margery and Michael Norton. Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: the Reign of Charles I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952-64.
  • O'Donoghue, Freeman. British Museum: Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1908-25.
  • Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1949.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Collection
Accession number
E.304-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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