Sujet

Charles II at the moment of exorcism, 1890. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Charles II at the moment of exorcism, 1890. Charles II, called the Bewitched (1661-1700). King of Spain (1665-1700). It was believed that the king was under the influence of an evil spell, which led to exorcisms that would ended his ill health and allow him to beget an heir to the throne. From "Historia General de España (General History of Spain) by Miguel Morayta, Vol IV, Madrid, 1890.

Date

1890

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/LTL

Notre référence

HRM26A06_080

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

34,1Mo (7,3Mo) / 34,0cm x 25,1cm / 4016 x 2968 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe building people black male interior group man men health healthcare historical religious sitting arts country religion panoramic Spain Spanish monarch art book guy continent clothes gesture European color king royal palace illness dress location century inside treatment sickness sick ill image clothing print literature royalty priest dynasty concept printing seated APPAREL full length attempt full-length mental illness 17th century Colour hand raised Day infertility 19th century Indoors 1890s lithograph nineteenth century history historic seventeenth century chromolithograph epilepsy epileptic exorcism Habsburg intervention royal family sovereign attempted lithography illustration portrait chromolithograph young man young men Unknown Charles II King of Spain House of Habsburg Spain black colour letterbox format lithotint inbreeding clerical clothing 1890 disfigurement 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing clerical dress lithographic 1680s Miguel historical person historic figure Prisma Archivo Fotografico General history of Spain Historia General de Espana Historia General de España Habsburg jaw Charles II of Spain Charles II of the Bewitched Miguel Morayta Miguel Morayta y Sagrario Morayta House of Austria Charles the Bewitched