Catherine Howard Size:L: 90 x 60cm 'Fossil Oyster Rooms'

'Fossil Oyster Rooms'

This is a satire on the Corporation of Windsor

He is in the company of the ghost of Daniel O'Connell

The illustrations show an oyster shell (fig

Plate 35 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain

Catherine Howard Size:L: 90 x 60cm 'Fossil Oyster Rooms'Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, (1796). Catherine (born between 1520 and 1525, died February 13, 1542) became the fifth queen consort of Henry VIII on 28 July 1540. She is sometimes known by Henry's reference to her as the rose without a thorn. Despite this, he had her beheaded because of her alleged adultery.