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The Manner of the Champions Performing the Ceremony of the Challenge.
The Manner of the Champions Performing the Ceremony of the Challenge.
Yeates fc. [1687]
Engraving, platemark 230 x 260mm (9 x 10¼"). Trimmed to image on left.
The King's Champion riding into Westminster Hall at the banquet following the coronation of James II, having thrown down the gauntlet. Illustration to Francis Sandford, 'The history of the coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, James II, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. And of his royal consort, Queen Mary' (London, 1687). Sandford worked for two years with his fellow herald Gregory King to produce this record of the coronation rituals, which included twenty-seven lavish engravings of the sumptuous feasts, processions and fireworks in a style previously unseen in the British Isles. Unfortunately for Sandford, the book appeared shortly before the Glorious Revolution which saw James II flee the country, and the authors barely cleared their expenses.
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