King Henry VIII in Victorian hunting outfit with a shepherd’s crook on horseback chasing a Catholic monk fleeing with the church gold. Parody of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, circa 1540. Henry hunted in the Epping Forest. Henry VIII monk-hunting. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Gilbert Abbott A’Beckett’s Comic History of England, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London, 1880.

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