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REGAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
of one which is a portrait of his father, presenting him (on his knees) to Our
Saviour and the Messed Virgin. The face, the character, and the manner of the
hair of prince Edward, are precisely the same as in the illumination I have given,
which shews they were either done from the life, or from some picture of him then
extant.—I did not engrave the other painting of the Black Prince, because, as the
subject seems to be entirely allegorical, I might be, therefore, thought to break in
on my proposed historical series ; and it was the less necessary, as the illumination
which I have copied is equally as well executed.
The colours of the above illumination are as follows: The king sits on a
throne of marble, ornamented with a frame of gold; the armour of both the king
and prince is silver, done over with a kind of laquer, except the joints at the knees
and elbows, which are gold ; the arms of England are painted on the bodies of
their armour1 in the proper colours ; the letter is white, shaded with blue and red,
on an entire back ground of gold.2
3 [See note over leaf.—Ed.]
2 The original of this plate is to be found in Nero, D. VI. a MS. in the Cotton Library.
REGAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
of one which is a portrait of his father, presenting him (on his knees) to Our
Saviour and the Messed Virgin. The face, the character, and the manner of the
hair of prince Edward, are precisely the same as in the illumination I have given,
which shews they were either done from the life, or from some picture of him then
extant.—I did not engrave the other painting of the Black Prince, because, as the
subject seems to be entirely allegorical, I might be, therefore, thought to break in
on my proposed historical series ; and it was the less necessary, as the illumination
which I have copied is equally as well executed.
The colours of the above illumination are as follows: The king sits on a
throne of marble, ornamented with a frame of gold; the armour of both the king
and prince is silver, done over with a kind of laquer, except the joints at the knees
and elbows, which are gold ; the arms of England are painted on the bodies of
their armour1 in the proper colours ; the letter is white, shaded with blue and red,
on an entire back ground of gold.2
3 [See note over leaf.—Ed.]
2 The original of this plate is to be found in Nero, D. VI. a MS. in the Cotton Library.