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[Henrietta Maria.]Les uns admirent sa Conduite. [/] Les autres sa Constance en sa juste douleur, [/] Mais pour exprimer son Merite; [/] On le Compare a son Malheur.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. Sheet: 130 x 180mm (5 x 7"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet.
A portrait of Charles I's queen consort Henrietta Maria (1609-1669), a French princess who became queen of England on her marriage to Charles I in 1625, shown here in her mourning attire. After the execution of Charles I, Henrietta Maria escaped to Paris and returned briefly on the Restoration of her son Charles II. The poem below is by Francois Matthieu Chatelet de Beauchateau, a child poet, born in 1645, who entertained the French Court and the Parliament of Oliver Cromwell with his poetry.
[Ref: 42031] £140.00
Engraving. Sheet: 130 x 180mm (5 x 7"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet.
A portrait of Charles I's queen consort Henrietta Maria (1609-1669), a French princess who became queen of England on her marriage to Charles I in 1625, shown here in her mourning attire. After the execution of Charles I, Henrietta Maria escaped to Paris and returned briefly on the Restoration of her son Charles II. The poem below is by Francois Matthieu Chatelet de Beauchateau, a child poet, born in 1645, who entertained the French Court and the Parliament of Oliver Cromwell with his poetry.
[Ref: 42031] £140.00