Accession number
PML 145850.6
Published
Paris : Cum privilegio Regis P. Firens fecit, [ca. 1610?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title and imprint from British Museum online catalog, consulted Mar. 9, 2012.
Signed within the plate at lower left: Cum privilegio Regis P. Firens excudit.
Mounted as item 6 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner J. Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy closely trimmed with loss of caption title, imprint, and commentary text; both upper and lower corners torn at left, with loss to image.
Signed within the plate at lower left: Cum privilegio Regis P. Firens excudit.
Mounted as item 6 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner J. Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy closely trimmed with loss of caption title, imprint, and commentary text; both upper and lower corners torn at left, with loss to image.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 312 x 402 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A broadside with engraving showing King Henry IV touching those afflicted with scrofula (popularly known as King's Evil); with an engraving depicting a classical town square with a large group of people, on the left Henry IV touching the forehead of a man kneeling in front of him.
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