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- Title:
Edward III
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Baziliologia, a Booke of Kings
Collective Title: The Historie and Lives of the Kings of England
- Date:
- 1618
- Medium:
- Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, laid on mount
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 3/16 × 4 1/2 inches (18.2 × 11.4 cm), Image: 5 9/16 × 4 5/16 inches (14.1 × 11 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower center: "H. vol. 2, p 125, Baziliwologia Martin 1628 O. D. 1 | no. 11, pl. 57 (d) I"
Lettered in black ink, within image, upper left, in coat of arms: "HONI · SOIT · QUI · MAL · Y · PENSE"; in frame surrounding portrait: "EDWARDUS III. D. G. ANGLIÆ ET FRANCIÆ REX, DOMINUS HIBERNIÆ."; within image, upper right, in ribbon: "SAPIENTIA | FORTUNAM"; lower left: "Are to be Sold by Compton Holland over against th'exchange"; lower center: "The true pourtraicture of EDWARD iii. borne at Windfore, of | the age of 15 yeres was crowned at Westminster the 2 of Februarie | 1326. he took the tittle of King of France, as dew unto him, both by | Civill Lawe, and order of Succession: being the Nephew and next heir male | of K: Charles IIII. his mothers brother, in regard wherof he quartred | the armes of France with Englands. He raigned 50, yeres, 5 mo: | He died at the manor of Shene in Surrey. Ano. 1377. buried in Westminster."; lower right: "R. E. Sculpsit"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1994.4.161
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- beard | cap | cartouche | chain | coat of arms | costume | crest | crowns | ermine | illustration | jewels | king (person) | lion | livery collar | man | mustache | orb | oval | pendant | portrait | ribbon | robe | royalty | scepter
- Associated People:
- Edward III (1312–1377), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:34372
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