The Council of War Size:XL: 120 x 80cm View of the courtyard in

View of the courtyard in Gresham College

Church of San Giovanni degli Eremiti

View of the temporary Royal Exchange situated in the quadrangle of the Excise Office from 1838 to 1844 while building work was carried out

Embossed lower left 'Bristol Paper'

The Council of War Size:XL: 120 x 80cm View of the courtyard inThe Council of War, 1623 1624, (1893). The future King Charles I travelled to Spain in 1623 to arrange a marriage to the Infanta Maria Anna, daughter of Philip III of Spain. The trip was a disaster, with the Spanish insisting that Charles convert to Catholicism and remain in Spain for a year as conditions of the marriage going ahead. On his return to England, the outraged Charles asked his father, James I, to declare war on Spain. Broadside in the