- Title:
- Portrait of Athelstan
- Object name(s):
- visual representation > print
- Brief description:
- Portrait of Athelstan
- Collection:
- Ashmolean Museum
- Associated person:
- Aethelstan, King of England
- Person's association:
- subject
- Person's birth date:
- 924/5 - 939
- Associated place:
- Europe
- Place association:
- place of creation
- Inscription content:
- lettered production information: Was eldest son of King Edward, succeeded him &/ was crowned at Kingston in 924 in 938 he defeated/ the United Forces of the Danes & Scotsm obliged the/ Princes of Wales to become his Tributaries. caused/ the Bible to be translated into Saxon (then the mother/ Tongue.) he died at Gloucester in Nov. 940 in the 16th/ year of his reign, and was buried at Malmsbury., in lower center
- Inscription content:
- lettered production information: This portrait is taken from an Ancient Seal of / one of his Religious Foundations., in lower center
- Inscription content:
- lettered title: Athelstan, below portrait
- Inscription content:
- collector's mark: Hope / Port. Colln. / Oxford, in lower left, stamped in blue ink, Frederick William Hope (Lugt 1266b); also on verso
- Object name:
- visual representation > print
- Object number:
- WAHP12169
- Object production date:
- 2nd half of the 18th century
- Date - association:
- date of creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1751
- Date - latest:
- 1800
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 2nd half of the 18th century
- Object production person:
- Anonymous British
- Person's association:
- printmaker
- Responsible department/section:
- Western Art
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/1f4b53ed-2727-3e1e-a00f-257b8c248e82
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/1f4b53ed-2727-3e1e-a00f-257b8c248e82, Ashmolean Museum, CC BY-NC
Is there a problem with this record? Give feedback.