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King Charles the First |
William Marshall - Frontispiece to 'The Holy State': In this original engraving, William Marshall depicts King Charles the First flanked by allegorical representations of truth and justice. Under the King is a miniature map of the British Isles which is supported by the two joined arms of the Church and the State. These two vital institutions rest on identical pillars and contain books at their bases; the Old and New Testaments, for the Church, and Statutes and 'Lawes', for the State. Thus, under the watchful guidance of Charles I, the nation is in perfect symmetry. With the eventual execution of the king this idyllic balance was clearly not in the works. |
Map of the British Isles |
| This original William Marshall engraving is printed on 17th century hand-made, laid paper as published by John Williams for Thomas Fuller's, "The Holy State" in 1643. It represents a historically important example of the art created by the British artist, William Marshall and early English engraving. | ||
| Title: | Frontispiece to 'The Holy State' |
| Artist: | Marshall, William (London, c. 1591 - 1649) |
| Date: | 1642 |
| Medium: | Original Line Engraving |
| Publisher: | John Williams, London |
| Note: | William Marshall: "Between 1617 and 1649 he lived the laborous days of the patient, uninspired plodder, treating his opportunities always with respect. ... The interest of William Marshall's prints is, therefore, not artistic, but historic, biographic, literary. Their distinction is derived entirely from the persons or the books with which they are associated. But what associations these are! What a glorious privilege was the engraver's to have been at the christening, so to speak, of immortal books; to have stood, in a manner, godfather to the 'Religio Medici' and Herrick's 'Hesperides', perhaps even to have talked of them with Sir Thomas Browne himself and the melodious Dean! William Marshall's name borrows a literary fragrance from the mere titles of Sir John Suckling's collected poems, and Howell's letters, the 'Emblems' of Wither and of Quarles, the poems of Drayton, Owen Feltham's 'Resolves'. old Fuller's 'Holy Warre', Thomas Heywood's 'Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels', and that momentous book of pity, the 'Eikon Basilike'. * |
| Along with Thomas Cecil, John Payne and Robert Vaughan, William Marshall belongs to the first generation of native born English engravers. In the first half of the seventeenth century the art of engraving in England was dominated by imported Flemish and Dutch artists, most notably those engravers associated with Rubens and Van Dyck. Although they were usually "uninspired plodder" (s), Marshall and his fellow Englishmen were crucial in laying the ground work for a truly British school of engraving, which bore artistic results in the following generation in such fine work as the prints of William Faithorne and David Loggan | |
| Practically nothing is known of the life of William Marshall. He was, however, one of the most prolific of the early English engravers and was regularly commissioned to engrave frontispieces for the London publishers. Besides the famous writings mentioned above, Marshall also engraved from life the portraits of John Milton, Sir Robert Staplyton, Bathsua Makin and John Donne. | |
| This original engraving was created as the frontispiece illustration for Fuller's, "The Holy State". Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) was a Royalist and Anglican and became 'chaplain in extraordinary' to the king. Some of his most famous writings include, "The Holy Warre" (1640), "The Holy State" (1642), "The Profane State" (1642), "History of Cambridge University" (1665), "The Worthies of England" (1662) and "Good Thoughts in Bad Times" (1645). | |
| Reference: | * Malcolm C. Salaman, The Old Engravers of England, London, Cassell and Company, 1906, pp. 26 - 29. Quotation on pp. 26 & 27. |
| Size: | 9 3/8 X 5 5/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
| Matted with 100% Archival Materials | |
| Buy Now | Price: $295.00 US |
| Condition: | Printed on 17th century hand-made, laid paper and with margins trimmed to the image. Containing several slight spots of staining, particularly along the left margin, else a finely printed impression bearing the strong lines of an early printing. Altogether, "Frontispiece to 'The Holy State'" represents a historically important example of the art of William Marshall and early English engraving. |
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Original Engraving by the British artist, William Marshall.
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| Frontispiece to 'The Holy State' |
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