This just goes to show you how many things may still be hiding in archives, libraries, attics, etc.<\/p>\n
From The Guardian:<\/p>\n
A drawing of Henry VIII’s famous victory over the French at the “Siege of Boulogne” in 1544 is to go on public display for the first time in more than 400 years after lying undiscovered and mislabelled in the British Library archives.<\/p>\n
The image, drawn by a “war artist” commissioned to record the Tudor king’s military achievements, dates to 1545 and is one of four “views” documenting Henry’s second invasion of France.<\/p>\n
For centuries art historians have pondered why there was never a final picture showing the surrender of the city. Just three drawings survived, one showing Henry landing in Calais, another of him on the way to Boulogne, and a third of the siege in progress.<\/p>\n
“Everybody just assumed that the end of the siege had not been done,” Peter Barber, head of map collections at the British Library, told the Observer. But due to a cataloguing error the existence of a fourth drawing had gone unnoticed. It only came to light when Barber began re-cataloguing the manuscripts of Sir Robert Cotton, which had been left to the nation by his grandson, Sir John Cotton, in 1702 and passed to the British Museum on its founding in 1753.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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The drawing will be on display at the British Library’s “Henry VIII: Man and Monarch” exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This just goes to show you how many things may still be hiding in archives, libraries, attics, etc. From The Guardian: A drawing of Henry VIII’s famous victory over the French at the “Siege of Boulogne” in 1544 is to go on public display for the first time in more…<\/p>\n