Title

'King Alfred in disguise rebuked by the Neat Herd's Wife for letting the Cakes burn', (c878)

Caption

'King Alfred in disguise rebuked by the Neat Herd's Wife, for letting the Cakes burn which she observed he himself was so fond of', (c878), 1783. Alfred, given shelter on the Somerset Levels by a woman unaware of his identity and preoccupied by matters of his kingdom, let the cakes burn. From "New Complete and Authentic History of England", by Edward Barnard. [Alex Hogg, London, 1783]

Date

1783

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F25_319

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

64,2Mb (2,9Mb) / 14,0in x 17,8in / 4190 x 5352 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings England agriculture food female women woman people male interior man men domestic farming house houses arts country frame monarch book guy burnt burning British English shelter hiding king decorative royal sheltering location century Britain inside cake cakes literature royalty lady concept legend peasant peasants Somerset B&W preoccupied scolding telling off MONOCHROME distracted framed domestic life Day hearth Indoors black & white black and white B W legendary farm hand fireside farm worker Nagging 18th century Eighteenth Century history historic bread The Print Collector 9th century agricultural worker Anglo Saxon Anglo-Saxon farm labourer Somerset Levels sovereign TGN King Alfred the Great alfred the great engraving portrait Unknown King Alfred King of Wessex Aelfred Alexander Edward Barnard Barnard Edward Alfred I Alex Hogg Hogg Alexander Hogg His Majesty History of England Alex engraving portrait