Title

Hengest and Horsa meeting King Vortigern, in the Isle of Thanet', 1773.

Caption

'Hengest and Horsa meeting King Vortigern, in the Isle of Thanet', 1773. Hengist and Horsa led the Angles, Saxons and Jute invasion of Britain in the 5th century. After Samuel Wale (1721-1786). From "A New and Complete History of England, From the Earliest Period of Authentic Intelligence to the Present Time", by Temple Sydney. [J. Cooke, London, 1773]

Date

1773

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F20_004

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

64,9Mb (4,8Mb) / 12,8in x 19,8in / 3829 x 5925 (300dpi)

Keywords

engraving portrait nature tree England people male job man men family meeting plant plants arts country frame monarch book guy occupation clothes British English king decorative royal dress brother war text location century Kent helmet Britain profession soldier invasion literature royalty concept legend B&W alliance underneath under MONOCHROME framed below cloak titled Day Treachery black & white black and white B W legendary 18th century Eighteenth Century history historic trees The Print Collector 5th century mercenary sovereign TGN Horsa King Vortigern illustration Samuel Wale engraving portrait King Temple Vortigern Cooke Sydney MERCENARIES Thanet William Walker Walker William J Cooke Wale Samuel His Majesty J. J J. Cooke New and Complete History of England William Walker I Sydney Temple Hengest