HENRY VIII.

BEGAN HIS REIGN APRIL 22, 1509.

CLASS I.

THE ROYAL FAMILY.

HENRICUS VIII. Holbein p. Hollar f. ex Collect. Arundel. 1647. 12mo.

HENRICUS VIII. H. Holbein p. Faber (sen.) f. one of the Set of Founders, large 4to.

There is another, if not more of him, by the same hand; and a large h. sh. mezz. by his son, after Holbein. HENRY VIII. Holbein p. Houbraken sc. h. sh. Illust. Head.*

HENRY VIII. Holbein p. Vertue sc. h. sh.

A most curious print of HENRY VIII. inscribed "Henricus, Dei Gratia, Rex Angliæ, 1548," engraved by Cornelius Matsis, the initial letters of whose name are in two ciphers; one in the right position, and the other inverted. He has a most enormous fur tippet about his neck, which seems to be sunk into his shoulders. The likeness is so ridiculous, that it has much of the air of a Caricatura. It is very scarce.

HENRICUS VIII. 8vo. From Holland's " From Holland's "Heroologia Anglica."

HENRICUS Octavus; F. Delaram sc. 4to.-Another by J. Payne.

The collar, which was commonly called the inestimable Collar of Rubies, is represented in this print; it was sold for Charles I. in the time of the civil wars, by the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Holland.

HENRY VIII. Regem dedi iratus eis. 8vo. T. Cecil sc. HENRICUS VIII. W. F. (Faithorne) f. 4to. Frontispiece to Lord Herbert's Hist.

HENRI VIII. Vander Werff p. G. Valck sc. h. sh.

HENRI VIII. Vander Werff p. P. a Gunst. sc. h.sh.

Vander Werff drew sixty-seven portraits for Mons. Larrey's "History of England," which were engraved by Valk, Gunst, Vermeulen, B. Audran, Ch. Simmoneau, Peter Drevet, and Desrochers.

HENRICUS Octavus; inscribed "H. O. R." Vertue sc. small.

HENRICK DE VIII. &c. small 4to.

HENRY VIII. giving the Bible to the Clergy, &c. in the fine frontispiece to Cranmer's Bible, printed by R. Grafton and E. Whitchurch, 1539: it was designed by Holbein. There is a copy of it, with a large explanation, in Lewis's "History of the English Translations of the Bible," Svo. p. 124. Copied in Strutt's "Dresses."

HENRY VIII. EDWARD VI. PHILIP and MARY, and ELIZABETH, with emblematical figures. Wm. Rogers sc. Mr. Walpole never saw but one of these prints, besides his own, and that was in the King of France's library.

HENRY VIII. giving the charter to the surgeons' company; Holbein p. Baron sc. large sh.

This company was incorporated 1541, 32 Hen. VIII.

HENRICUS VIII. Fund". Coll. Trinit. Cantab. Ao. D'. 1546. J. Faber f. large 4to. mezz.

This is after his portrait at Trinity College.

HENRY the Eighth, and JANE SEYMOUR his See Artic. I. Class I.

queen.

HENRY VIII. with view of Trinity College, in Wilson's " Cambridge," 8vo. E. Harding, 1801.

HENRY VIII. in Hume's "England," 1803. Bromley. HENRY VIII. oval, when prince. W. Richardson. This is copied from the children of Henry VII. by Vertue.

HENRY VIII. in " Royal and Noble Authors," by Park, 1806. Bocquet.

HENRY VIII. in Harding's Shakspeare. Clausin.

HENRY VIII. with sceptre and ball (different from Delarum's): are to be sold in Lombard Street by Henry Balaem; scarce.

HENRY VIII. on horseback, hat and feather, woodcut; folio; rare.

HENRY VIII. in the Antiquarian print, with Henry VII. &c.

HENRY VIII. his children, and Will. Summers. F. Bartolozzi sc.

This despotic monarch held the nation in greater subjection than any of its conquerors; and did more by his will, than any of his predecessors could have done with the sword. He was, in his own estimation, the wisest prince in Europe; but was the known dupe of as many of the European princes as paid their court to him under that character. He was more governed by vanity and caprice than principle; and paid no regard to mercy, nor even to justice, when it stood in the way of his passions. He persecuted both protestants and papists; and gained the character of a generous and munificent prince, by dividing the spoils of the church, to which he had no right. His whole administration, after he was possessed of those spoils, is a flagrant proof of the impotence of law, when opposed to the violence of arbitrary power. But, though a tyrant, he, by depressing the nobility, and increasing the property of the Commons, had a considerable hand in laying the foundations of civil liberty; and, though a bigot to almost every error of the church of Rome, he was the father of the Reformation.

CATHARINA princeps. Arthuri uxor, Henrico regi nupta; Holbein p. R. White sc. h. sh.

VOL. I.

CATHARINE of Arragon; Holbein p. Houbraken sc. 1743. h. sh. Illust. Head.

In the collection of the Honourable Horace Walpole.

CATHARINE d'Arragon; Vander Werff p. Vermeulen sc, h. sh.

CATHARINE, in Harding's Shakspeare. S. Harding From the original at Strawberry Hill. CATHARINE; small oval. Vertue.

CATHARINE, in "Noble Authors," by Park. Bocquet. As soon as the person of Catharine became unacceptable to the king, he began to entertain scruples about the lawfulness of his marriage, which were much increased by his consulting casuists, particularly the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, whose authority he thought decisive. His passion for Anne Bolen added weight to all these, and was more decisive than the casuistry of St. Thomas himself. She was divorced in 1533. Ob. 8 Jan. 1535-6. Ætat. 51.

ANNA BULLEN (BOLEN); a circle; Holbein delin, Hollar f. 12mo.

ANN BULLEN, queen of King Henry VIII. Holbein Houbraken sc. Illust. Head.

p.

In the collection of the late Earl of Bradford.

ANN BOLEN. F. Delaram sc. rare.

ANN BOLEYN; Elstracke sc.

ANNE DE BOULEN; Vander Werff p. Vermeulen sc. h. sh.

HENRY the Eighth declaring his passion for ANNE BOLEN; Hogarth p. et sc. sh.

ANN BULLEN, whole length, as Faith. H. Holbein. W. Hollar fecit, 1647; scarce.

ANNE BULLEN; Bocquet sc. In " Noble Authors," by Park, 1806, 8vợ.

There is a portrait of her at Woburn Abbey.

This beauteous queen fell a sacrifice to the violent passions of Henry the Eighth; to his anger for bringing him a dead son; to his jealousy, for the innocent, but indiscreet familiarities of her behaviour; and, above all, to his passion for Jane Seymour, whom he married the next day after she was beheaded.-Exec. 19 May 1536.

JOHANNA SEYMOUR, regina Henric. VIII. Holbein p. Hollar f. 1648; in a circle.

JANE SEYMOUR; Illust. Head.

JANE SEYMOUR: see her portrait in the familypiece described in Article I. Class I.

JANE SEYMOUR; H. Holbein. F. Bartolozzi sc. 1795; in the Royal Collection.

JANE SEYMOUR, fol. Vermeulen sc.

JANE SEYMOUR; W. Bond sc. From the original of Holbein, in the collection of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, in Lodge's "Illustrious Portraits."

Jane Seymour was the best beloved wife of Henry VIII. and had indeed the best title to his affection, as she possessed more merit than any of his queens. She died in childbed of Edward VI. 14 Oct. 1537. The king continued a widower two years after her decease.

CATHARINE HOWARD; H. Holbein pinx. Hollar f. 1646; richly adorned; 8vo.

CATHARINE HOWARD, queen of King Henry VIII. Holbein p. Houbraken sc. Illust. Head. In the collec tion of Mr. Richardson.

It is now at Strawberry-hill.

Vertue took this head for that of Mary, queen of France.-See "Anecd. of Painting," vol. i. p. 95. 2d edit.

CATHARINE HOWARD; Vander Werff. p. Vermeulen sc. h. sh.

Catharine Howard was niece to the Duke of Norfolk, and cousingerman to Anne Bolen. Soon after the king had ordered a public