Edmund Lodge Portraits Illustrious Personalities engravings
Exquisite circa 1840 Antique Portrait Print
SIR THOMAS MORE
FROM THE ORIGINAL of HOLBEIN, IN THE COLLECTION OF
W. J. LENTHAL, ESQUIRE
Engraved by: H. T. RYALL
Published for Lodge's Portraits by John Tallis & Company, London & New York
Approximate Portrait Image Area Size: 3 3/4 X 5 inches
Approximate Size With Decorated Border and vignettes: 5 3/4 X 7 1/2 inches
Approximate Overall Size with margins: 7 X 10 3/4 inches
Exquisite circa 1840 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. Suitable age toning/browning. Blank on Reverse side and printed heavier paper.
(General Info only, not included with print) - Saint Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535) was an English lawyer, author, and statesman who in his lifetime gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist scholar, and occupied many public offices, including Lord Chancellor (1529–1532), in which capacity he had a number of people burned at the stake for heresy. More coined the word "utopia", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in the eponymous book published in 1516. He was beheaded in 1535 when he refused to sign the Act of Supremacy that declared King Henry VIII Supreme Head of the Church of England.
In 1935, four hundred years after his death, Pope Pius XI canonized More in the Roman Catholic Church; More was declared Patron Saint of politicians and statesmen by Pope John Paul II in 1980. 1969 saw the inclusion of More's name in the General Roman Calendar, with a Memorial in which he is venerated with Saint John Fisher on 22 June, the day of the latter's death. In 1980, More was added to the Church of England's calendar of saints, again jointly with John Fisher, but on July 6, the day of More's death.
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