2-703-945 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Henry making love to Jane Seymour', 1897. Jane sits demurely on the knee of an overweight King Henry VIII, watched from the door by another woman, possibly Queen Anne Boleyn. (Henry was betrothed to Jane on 20 May 1536, just one day after Anne Boleyn's execution). From "The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett, with satirical illustrations by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1897]