Catalina De Aragon Gallery

Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire, home of the Duke of Manchester, c1880

Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire, home of the Duke of Manchester, c1880. Kimbolton Castle was the final residence of Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII. It was the seat of the Dukes of Manchester from 1615 until 1950, since when it has housed a public school. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Reverend FO Morris, Volume III, William Mackenzie, London, c1880. Wood-engraved plates after paintings by Benjamin Fawcett and Alexander Francis Lydon

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Signatures of Henry VII, Elizabeth of York, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, 16th century.Artist: King Henry VIII

Signatures of Henry VII, Elizabeth of York, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, 16th century. Royal signatures in a Book of Hours of the Virgin and and other Offices, in Latin, written late in the 15th century, on vellum, and illuminated by Flemish artists. The MS appears to have belonged to a lady the the court of the first two Tudor kings, containing (on the two pages represented) autograph inscriptions by Henry VII and his wife, Elizabeth of York, and Henry VIII, and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. In the case of the last, the signature has been obliterated. From the third series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V, (London, 1899)

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