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- Title:
Richard III
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Baziliologia, a Booke of Kings
Collective Title: The Historie and Lives of the Kings of England
- Date:
- 1618 or 1628
- Medium:
- Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 13/16 × 4 7/16 inches (17.3 × 11.3 cm), Image: 6 11/16 × 4 5/16 inches (17 × 10.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower left: "Renold Elstracke, attributed to | H; 001.2, 0.1299, no. 18 | pl. 60 (c) I | Martin 1628"
Lettered in black ink, within image, upper left, in coat of arms: "HONI · SOIT · QUI · MAL · Y · PENSE"; within image, in frame surrounding portrait: "RICHARDUS TERRUS ANGLIÆ ET FRANCIÆ REX/ DOMINUS HYBERNIÆ. erc."; lower center: "The portrait of RICHARD the 3, King of England, and Fraunce, | Lord of Ireland. He was Slaine at Bosworth feild, the 22th. of August. | 1486. and homelye buried at the Graye friers Church in Leicester, when he | had usurped 2 yeares 2 monthes and one day | Are to be sold by Compton Holland over against the Exchange"
- 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:
- B1994.4.163
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- broken | cartouche | coat of arms | costume | crest | crowns | ermine | flowers (motifs) | illustration | jewels | king (person) | orb | oval | portrait | robe | royalty | scepter
- Associated People:
- Richard III (1452–1485), king of England and lord of Ireland
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:34388
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