Duke of Monmouth – Vintage Wall Art
![Duke of Monmouth, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a1/a1d1cecec0e8-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Duke of Monmouth, preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Duke of Monmouth
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James Scott, the Duke of Monmouth, was the illegitimate son of Charles II, born in 1649, and he became one of the most popular men in England. In 1685 he led a rebellion against his uncle, James II, hoping to take the throne, but his forces were defeated at Sedgemoor that July, and he was executed on Tower Hill a few weeks later. The record gives no date for this plate, so it may reproduce an earlier portrait, a practice common in the *Universal Magazine*, an eighteenth-century British periodical that often printed engraved likenesses of notable figures.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving in the Universal Magazine. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 922 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157085 |
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