Portrait of King John of England, surnamed Lackland, with crown, sceptre, sword and mantle. Emblems indicate assassination of Arthur Duke of Brittany, Pope giving crown to Philip of France, Magna Carta, and landing of Prince Louis of France. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Mary Ann Rundall from A Symbolical History of England, from Early Times to the Reign of William IV, Truchy, Paris, 1839. Mary Ann Rundall was a teacher of young ladies in Bath, and published her book of mnemonic emblems in 1815.

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