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Richard III and the Knave of Cards: An Illuminator's Model in Manuscript and Print, 1440s to 1990s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

Anne F Sutton  and
Livia Visser Fuchs
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For over two hundred years certain historians and art historians have been asserting that a portrait of Richard III can be found in the presentation miniature of one of Edward IV's manuscripts. This ‘portrait’ was the starting point of this investigation. The history of this myth has been traced, and that of the picture itself, its component parts and the book in which it appears, and it was the second phase of this research which revealed another complex trail of copies and imitations by illuminators and other artists.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 79 , September 1999 , pp. 257 - 299
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1999

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