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Images commemorating Charles I's execution were suppressed in England but numerous prints were produced in continental Europe. The first recorded engraving is the Theatrum Tragicum, published in Amsterdam within weeks of the event. This German print is a close copy but reversed.
Charles I - The execution of the King of England. Contemporary engraving. With portraits of Charles I and Sir Thomas Fairfax. The King was beheaded on a scaffold outside the Banqueting House at Whitehall.
The Apotheosis, or, Death of the King, a 1728 engraving from a biographical series about Charles I. Charles is shown ascending to heaven after his execution, borne by angels, while a figure representing Britain looks away in shame.
Browse 396 execution of charles i 1649 photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. 30th January 1649, The executioner holds up the severed head of King Charles I at Whitehall, London.
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland , but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest ...
King Charles I. (1600-1649), Reigned 1625-49. Sitter associated with 335 portraits. The younger, surviving son of James I and Anne of Denmark, Charles became heir to the throne on the death of his brother Henry in 1612. Charles inherited his father's belief in the 'Divine Right of Kings' and became the greatest of all British royal art patrons ...
Charles I was executed in front of the Banqueting House on 30 January 1649. This unprecedented act of regicide garnered much attention across Europe and there was a great appetite for information and images of the event.
