Description
These prints depicts the arrival of Queen Catherine of Braganza in Portsmouth, were she was greeted by King Charles II, who she was about to marry. The lower image shows the married couple arriving as guests at Whitehall.
Made by after an anonymous artist.
Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 42.5 x 34.5 cm (16.73 x 13.58 inch). Image size: 38.5 x 31 cm. (15.16 x 12.2 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Fold as published. Creases. Fold in upper right corner. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
POLITICS-QUEEN CATHARINE-GREAT BRITAIN-KING CHARLES II-MARRIAGE-PORTSMOUTH-WHITEHALL | RBOS-A9-40
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive print was published in Merian “Theatrum Europaeum”, Frankfurt a. M. um 1652.
Biography engraver: Matthaus Merian (1593 – 1650) born in Basel learned the art of copperplate engraving in Zurich and subsequently worked and studied in Strasbourg Nancy and Paris before returning to Basel in 1615. The following year he moved to Frankfurt Germany where he worked for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry who married his daughter Maria Magdalena 1617. In 1620 they moved back to Basel only to return three years later to Frankfurt where Merian took over the publishing house of his father-in-law after de Bry’s death in 1623. In 1626 he became a citizen of Frankfurt and could henceforth work as an independent publisher. He is the father of Maria Sibylla Merian who later published.
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