Knights of the Garter in procession. Etching by R. Cooper, 1782, after A. van Dyck, 1639.
- Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641.
- Date:
- July 7, 1782
- Reference:
- 582150i
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In the centre of the left sheet stands King Charles I holding a globe and sceptre, beneath a canopy held aloft by four gentlemen. Behind him is a group of pensioners. Cooper identifies the last but one pensioner on the left as Inigo Jones looking up at his building, and the last canopy-holder as a self-portrait of Van Dyck. In the foreground is a boy with a boar-like animal, whom Cooper identifies as "Jeffery Hudson the King's dwarf" "holding a particular kind of dog". In front of the king, Walter Curle, Bishop of Winchester (holding book) and Sir Thomas Rowe. To the right of their attendants Cooper identifies the Earl of Pembroke and the Earl of Arundel. In the right hand sheet, on the left four knights look up towards Queen Henrietta Maria on a balcony above on the left sheet, while to the right other knights progress towards the door of a great building. In the background "a colonnade of elegant architecture, (most probably the design of Vandyke's intimate friend, Inigo Jones)" (text on label below left half of the print)
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- an impression of each of two plates
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left half
Location Status Access Closed storesright half
Location Status Access Closed stores