Coronation of Charles V Size:S: 60 x 45cm Sketches of the Transit of

Sketches of the Transit of Venus at the beginning of the 1769 event

The author of the accompanying text

Benjamin Disraeli

View of the original Blackfriars Bridge designed by Robert Mylne and opened in 1869 from Chatham Place

to rekindle the embers of party strife

Coronation of Charles V Size:S: 60 x 45cm Sketches of the Transit ofCoronation of Charles V, c1365. From the Order of the Coronation of the King of France, showing Charles (1337 1380) being greeted by the archbishop at the Catheral of Reims. Illustration from Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum, Miniatures, Borders, and Initials by George F Warner, series I, (British Museum, London, 1899).