Edward VI of England - 1784 Engraving by Goldar after Holbein
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Original 1784 engraving with the portrait of Edward VI (1537-1553), son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, king of England and Ireland from 1547 and the first English monarch raised in the Protestant faith. He came to the throne at nine and died at fifteen, under a regency council.
Original 1784 engraving with the portrait of Edward VI (1537-1553), son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, king of England and Ireland from 1547 and the first English monarch raised in the Protestant faith. He came to the throne at nine and died at fifteen, under a regency council.
The engraving follows a portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), court painter to Henry VIII, and belongs to the illustrated edition of Paul de Rapin de Thoyras's History of England that John Harrison published in London from 1784. Below the oval is the royal coat of arms.
Medium: Copper engraving on laid paper.
Artist / after: After a work by Hans Holbein the Younger (Augsburg, 1497 - London, 1543).
Engraver: John Goldar (Oxford, 1729 - London, 1795).
Date: 24 July 1784, according to the imprint.
Source: Harrison's Edition of Rapin's History of England, London.
Dimensions: Plate mark 12.0 x 7.9 in (30.5 x 20 cm).
Condition: Good condition, with foxing of the period above all in the margins, visible in the photograph.
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Original 1784 engraving with the portrait of Edward VI (1537-1553), son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, king of England and Ireland from 1547 and the first English monarch raised in the Protestant faith. He came to the throne at nine and died at fifteen, under a regency council.