King Edgar with an Anglo Saxon Youth of distinction, 10th century. Eadgar, King of Mercia and England, , in gold crown, blue mantle, purple tunic, leg bandages, holding a sceptre. They stand in front of Croyland Bridge. Edgar from Cotton MS Vespasianus A viii, youth from Tiberius C vi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving etched by John Augustus Atkinson, aquatinted by John Hill, after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his own Selections of Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, Colnaghi and Co., London, 1814.

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