Edmund Lodge Portraits Illustrious Personalities engravings
Exquisite 1840s Antique Portrait Print
QUEEN CATHARINE PAR.
FROM THE ORIGINAL BY HOPPNER, IN THE COLLECTION OF
THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD CARRINGTON
Engraved by: LIGHTFOOT
Published for Lodge's Portraits by JOHN TALLIS & COMPANY, LONDON & NEW YORK
Approximate Portrait Image Area Size: 4 X 5 inches
Approximate Size With Decorated Border and vignettes: 6 1/4 X 7 1/4 inches
Approximate Overall Size with margins: 7 X 11 inches
Exquisite 1840s Steel Engraving - Lovely Antique Portrait Print
A beautiful elaborate fleur de lis scrollwork decorative border surrounds the image, with a tiny vignette at the top of the portrait image. The vignette may represent the family coat of arms or crest. The celtic like ornamental perimeter scrollwork surrounding the portrait is a beautiful work of art, typical of a John Tallis type production. A great historical portrait print for a genealogy buff looking for family heritage or royalty type prints.
CONDITION: Very Good Condition. Blank on Reverse side and printed heavier paper. A beautiful print, lovely work of art.
Catherine Parr (c.1512 - 7 September 1548), was the Queen Consort of Henry VIII of England (1543-1547), the last of his six wives. Dowager Queen of England, she has a special place in history as the most married queen of England, having had four husbands in all. She married Henry VIII on 12 July 1543 at Hampton Court Palace. As Queen, Catherine was partially responsible for reconciling Henry to his daughters from his first two marriages, who would later become Mary I of England and Elizabeth I of England. She also developed a good relationship with Prince Edward. When she became Queen, her uncle Baron Parr of Horton became her Chamberlain. Following Henry's death on 28 January 1547, Catherine was able to marry her old love, Thomas Seymour (now Baron Seymour of Sudeley and Lord High Admiral), but her happiness was short-lived. She had a rivalry with Anne Stanhope, the wife of her husband's brother. Then, Thomas Seymour was alleged to have taken liberties with the teenaged Princess Elizabeth, who was living in their household, and he reputedly intrigued to marry his wife's stepdaughter.
Having had no children from her first three marriages, Catherine became pregnant for the first time, by Seymour, in her mid-thirties, and died from complications of childbirth on 5 September 1548, at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, where she was buried. (wikipedia source)
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