King Charles I. Engraving by W. Marshall, 1649.

  • Marshall, William, active 1617-1650.
Date:
[1649]
Reference:
2033435i
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King Charles I wearing the George is seated astride a globe: he finishes writing the word "Scotica(m)" on the map of Scotland. A banderolle bears the words "Non enim te spreverunt solum, sed me spreverunt, ne regnem super ipsos" (For they scorned not thee alone but they scorned me, lest I should rule over them). A banderolle by his mouth says "Per ecclesiam petor" (I am sought through the church), which is continued on the globe, where the map of Great Britain shows Scotland and England marked "Scotica(m) ecclesia(m) et Anglicana(m) ecclesia(m) ad" (the Scottish church and the Anglican church). Above the king, two cherubim hold a banner lettered "Fidei defensor" in the rays of the sun

Publication/Creation

[London] : [R: Royston], [1649]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 14.8 x 8.5 cm

Lettering

Fidei defensor. Guil. Marshall sculp:

References note

Freeman O'Donoghue, Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, London 1910, p. 391 no. 151
A.M Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, part III (by M. Corbett and M. Norton), Cambridge 1964, p. 108 no. 18 and p. 161, no. 181

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Wellcome Collection 2033435i

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