40 State of Painting from the Reign of 



exiftj both in the benefits he calculated 

 for pofterlty and in the edifices ere6ted on 

 his own defigns for perpetuating thofe pious 

 bounties. The portrait has been engraven 

 by Houbraken among the heads of illuftrious 

 men -, a noble memorial, which I am forry to 

 fay was forced to be dropped (though exhi- 

 bited at the trifling expence of five fhillings 

 for four beautiful prints) the moment the 

 novelty of it was exhaufted. 



The Black Prince f was reprefented on 

 glafs in a window at the weft end of Weft- 

 minfter abbey, but the image is now al- 

 moft defaced. Mr. Maurice Johnfon, the 

 antiquary of Spalding, had a MS. of Ralph 

 Higden's Polychronicon, written in 1340, 

 wherein was an illumination of the author. 

 It was fhown to the Society of Antiquaries 

 in 1735- 



f Mr. Onflow, the late Tpeaker, had a head of the 

 Black Prince, which there is great reafon to believe 

 was painted at the time. It is not very ill done : It re- 

 prefents him in black armour, embofTed with gold, and 

 with a golden lion on his breafl. He has a hat with a 

 white feather, and a large ruby, exaftly in the Ihape of 

 the rough ruby ftill in the crown. He appears lean and 

 pale, as he was towards the end of his life. This very 

 carious pidure came out of Betchworth-caflle in Surrey. 



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