Kennington Inscription King Hardicanute hoax. Alfonso Duke of Ferrara 1790

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Fig 1. Kennington Inscription [A Stone with an inscription, purporting to be for King Hardicanute]. Fig 2 & 3. Seal of Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara, 1505]. Fig 4. [Silver Medal, struck by the ejected Members of the University of Oxford in 1648, inscribed, "Deo ecclesiae principi victima"]. Fig 5. [Autograph of James, son of James the Second (the Pretender)]. Fig 6. [Seal of the same]. Fig 7. [Inscription on a Font in the Church of Quadring, Lincolnshire]. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Unsigned. Provenance: "Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle", by Sylvanus Urban, Gent. London: Printed by J. Nichols, for D. Henry, late of St. John's Gate, and sold by E. Newbery, the Corner of St. Paul Church-Yard, Ludgate-Street. Type: Antique copperplate print. A copy of the original explanatory text pages will be provided with the print.

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Size: 2844px × 4725px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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