King Henry VIII Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Studies for 'The Virgin and

Studies for 'The Virgin and Child with St Anne and John the Baptist'

English charter originally issued in 1215

The clock is shown within a portable canvas observatory designed by astronomer William Bayly (1737û1810)

from 1774 until 1875

was most likely Stag's Horn fungus

King Henry VIII Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Studies for 'The Virgin and'King Henry VIII', 1542 1550. Henry (1491 1547) succeeded his father, Henry VII, in 1509. Obsessed with passing the throne on to a male heir, he had six wives in the course of his reign, none of whom provided him with a son who survived. In divorcing his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, in 1533, Henry severed the English church from Rome.