The prince lies in a cradle wearing a headdress of feathers. The cradle rests on a table draped with a patterned cloth. His mother, Mary of Modena, is seated next to the cradle, her r. hand resting on its edge. The prince looks out away from his mother toward a vase full of flowers on the other side of his cradle
Notes
General notes
With two lines of Dutch verse beneath title
Also available as a digital reproduction
Exhibited
Exhibited: Yesterday's News: Seventeenth-Century English Broadsides and Newsbooks, curated by Elizabeth Walsh, LuEllen DeHaven, and Theresa Helein, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., March 29-August 31, 1996
Also known as
Extended title: The young prince of Walles [sic] P. Schenk, fecit et exc. Amstelodamo
Alternate titles: Young prince of Wales
printmaker: Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 1719
depiction: James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766
depiction: Mary, of Modena, Queen, consort of James II, King of England, 1658-1718
publisher: Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 1719
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