King Charles II with his spaniels.


King Charles II with his spaniels. From a scarce print of a young Charles dining in Whitehall by Van Dyck. He wears a black coat slashed to show a ruffled white linen shirt, pink stockings, ribboned shoes, and carries a pipe. Handcolored engraving from "Civil Costume of England from the Conquest to the Present Period" drawn by Charles Martin and etched by Leopold Martin, London, Henry Bohn, 1842. The costumes were drawn from tapestries, monumental effigies, illuminated manuscripts and portraits. Charles and Leopold Martin were the sons of the romantic artist and mezzotint engraver John Martin (1789-1854).


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