[Brass seal of Henrietta Maria] [graphic]Basire, James, 1730-1802, printmaker[between 1745 and 1802]eng"The brass seal of Henrietta Maria; one face above showing the Queen full-length directed slightly to left holding sceptre and orb, under a canopy with crests to either side and lettered around the rim 'Henretta [sic] Mariae Dei Gratiae Angliae Scotiae Fraunciae [sic] Et Hiberniae Reginae'; below, a face showing a crest in a diamond surmounted by a crown and supported on the left by a crowned lion, on the right by St. Michael, lettered around the rim in the same way."--British Museum online catalogueTitle deviser by cataloger.Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1856,0712.872.Plate from: Vetvsta monvmenta. Londini : [publisher not identified], 1747-1906.Text in upper right corner of plate: Vol. V, pl. XXIV, p. 283.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from upper right corner. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.Mounted on page 82 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.1 print : etching and engraving ; circular sheet 11.1 cm and circular sheet 11.3 cm.Imperfect; the images of the two faces of the medal have been cut from sheet and are mounted side-by-side, with the rest of the plate trimmed away.Mounted below is a seven-paragraph letterpress description of the medal, beginning: This seal of brass very finely cut, belongs to Henrietta Maria, daughter of the Great Henry IV of France, and wife to our Charles I ...For further information, consult library staff.