2-703-947 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Henry wooing Catherine Parr', 1897. An obese King Henry VIII kneels and takes the hand of Catherine Parr. (Henry and Catherine, his sixth and last wife, were married from 1543 until his death in 1548. She outlived Henry by less than a year). From "The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett, with satirical illustrations by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1897]