1-272-652 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Field Of The Cloth Of Gold, 1520, (c1850). Lavishly decorated tents were constructed at the field of the Cloth of Gold, the meeting place near Calais in France, where Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France met to arrange an alliance between their countries between June 7 and 24, 1520. Colour plate from Pictures of English History, George Routledge & Sons, (London, New York, c1850).