Prince Rupert, taken from a series of cigarette cards mb-code 42-32973160 From the Maull & Polyblank

From the Maull & Polyblank series Literary and Scientific Portrait Club

mace with spiked ball on a chain

Boot illustrations

View of Haberdashers' Square

a year after he retired from the bench

Prince Rupert, taken from a series of cigarette cards mb-code 42-32973160 From the Maull & PolyblankPrince Rupert of the Rhine (1619 1682), a noted German soldier, admiral, scientist, sportsman, colonial governor and amateur artist. Rupert was a younger son of the German prince Frederick V, Elector Palatine and his wife Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of James I of England. Thus Rupert was the nephew of King Charles I of England, who created him Duke of Cumberland and Earl of Holderness, and the first cousin of King Charles II of England. Taken from