Title

Prince Rupert at the Battle of Edgehill, 1642 (1887). Artist: Unknown

Caption

Prince Rupert at the Battle of Edgehill, 1642 (1887). Prince Rupert of the Rhine, nephew of King Charles I, leading the Royalist cavalry in a charge at Edgehill, the indecisive first major battle of the English Civil War. After the picture by Stanley Berkley. A print from The Illustrated London News, 12th February 1887.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1887

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C49_462

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (5,8Mb) / 17,9in x 10,9in / 5365 x 3258 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal England people male man men animals horses horse country guy British English attack attacking charging royal mounted war location century Britain soldiers soldier royalty horseback concept charge battle Warwickshire cavalry metaphor warfare prince 17th century commander battlefield cavalier Stewart Stuart seventeenth century The Print Collector cavalryman charging into the fray English Civil War English Civil Wars 1642-1648 Royalist TGN Prince Rupert Battle of Edgehill Edge Hill leading from the front engraving Unknown Prince Rupert Ruprecht Pfalzgraf bei Rhein Herzog von Bayern Prince Rupert of the Rhine Duke of Cumberland Earl of Holderness Stanley Berkeley;Berkeley Stanley engraving