Plate [148] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; in a thick forest, the king surrounded by three young men pointing up in agitated state, an old man kneeling grasping the monarchs hand, and a woodcutter working in the foreground, his ...
Alternative Title:
Charles the Second in the forest of Boscobel
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
In a rural landscape with trees in the right rear of the print, Death in the form of a skeleton stand with his scythe and reaches down to touch an elderly white-bearded woodman who has fallen in the grass. The latter points to the burden of sticks whi...
Description:
Title etched between two columns of verse in six lines each below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, publish'd as the act directs
