King Charles I as Duke of York and Albany. Engraving by S. de Passe, ca. 1622.

Half length in oval directed to right facing front, wearing a stiff colour and armour, with Latin lettering around the oval frame, and in four lines of Latin verse below the portrait

An etched copy of an engraved print by Pass?

[London] : Are to be sould by Joh. Sudbury and Geor. Humble, [1622?]

1 print : engraving ; platemark 14.8 x 9.7 cm

Illustriss. et potentiss. pr. Carolus magnae Britan. et Hybern. princ. Ebor. et Alb. dux. S. Pass sculp. Verses below: Florentis regni columen flos aureus ævi / Spes patris et pouli summa Caledonii / Exspectat quondam quem magna Britannia rege(m), / Carolus hoc laetae frontis honore cluit (The support of a flourishing reign, the golden flower of the age, the highest hope of his father and of the Scottish people, he whom Great Britain looks to as its sometime king, Charles glories in this honour of a joyful countenance)

Freeman O'Donoghue, Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, London 1910, p. 383 no. 15

Wellcome Collection 204346i