Légende
Royal seal of Charles II, 1662. Design for a great seal for the king, who is shown in a heroic pose astride a galloping horse, and dressed as a Roman emperor wearing a laurel wreath. The famous medallist and seal engraver Thomas Simon had produced coins and seals for Cromwell. After the Restoration, he was supplanted by a royalist, but petitioned Charles II for work. Charles was impressed, and Simon was eventually reinstated as the chief designer of coins and seals. This example is from a warrant authorising the making of the seal.
Date
1662
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM25A15_095
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,7Mo (3,1Mo) / 35,4cm x 35,9cm / 4179 x 4244 (300dpi)