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Herman Moll's The World Described (1720): Mapping Britain's Global and Imperial Interests
Herman Moll's The World Described (1720), the pre-eminent folio atlas of Hanoverian Britain, departs from the usual Ortelian model in the selection and ordering of its contents. It placed Britain at the centre of the atlas so that the first half…
James VI & I
1/2 portrait of King James VI, facing right. White moustache and small beard, with brown collar-length hair. Wearing a large wide-brimmed hat with jewel pinning brim up at side, large ruff and gold embroidered jerkin, and wide blue ribbon hanging…
James VIII & III
Oil painting, portrait of James Francis Edward Stuart, James VIII, the Old Pretender.
Le Pretendant
This French engraving shows King Louis XIV of France acknowledging James VIII & III as king of England. Louis supported the exiled Stuarts both for reasons of pragmatism and principle. A Jacobite revolt would have crippled Britain's ability to fight…
Maces of King's and Marishal
The mace of King's College made by Walter Melville of Aberdeen, 1650.
Mary Stuart, (1542-87), Queen of Scots
Black and white engraving of an oval bust portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, in an internal oval frame with inscription. The engraver Thomas de Leu was from Flanders but worked mainly in Paris.