Original 1891 etching by A. P. Massé after Stanley Berkeley's painting "For God and the King", with the cavalry charge at the battle of Marston Moor. Published in The Art Journal by J. S. Virtue & Co., London. Bears the etched signature.
Original 1891 etching by A. P. Massé after Stanley Berkeley's painting "For God and the King", with the cavalry charge at the battle of Marston Moor. Published in The Art Journal by J. S. Virtue & Co., London. Bears the etched signature.
Marston Moor (2 July 1644) was the largest clash of the English Civil War: the parliamentarians of Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Manchester, with the Scottish covenanters of the Earl of Leven, defeated the royalists of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, who thereby lost the north of England.
Medium: Etching.
Artist / after: Stanley Berkeley (1855-1909).
Engraver: A. P. Massé.
Date: 1891.
Source: The Art Journal, London, J. S. Virtue & Co.
Dimensions: Image 6.0 x 9.8 in (15.2 x 25 cm).
Condition: Good. Light toning at the edges of the paper.