<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>[Dagger of Henry VIII] [art original].</dc:title><dc:date>[approximately 1842?]</dc:date><dc:language>zxx</dc:language><dc:description>Two views of the dagger believed by Horace Walpole to have been formerly owned by King Henry VIII. The first, at bottom, shows the dagger in its jeweled scabbard; the second, above, shows the dagger without the scabbard. A third image, at the top of the sheet, shows a mace, possibly the one described in the 1842 Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, day 19, lot 80 -- "A beautiful Italian steel mace, of exquisite workmanship, inlaid with gold, from the collection of M. Julienne."</dc:description><dc:description>Title devised by curator.</dc:description><dc:description>Unsigned; artist unidentified.</dc:description><dc:description>Date inferred from that of the plate on which the drawing is mounted; the plate, which depicts the dagger in its scabbard, was engraved for the 1842 Strawberry Hill sale catalogue.</dc:description><dc:description>The watercolor drawing is pasted on the top half of the larger sheet of the print, above the wood-engraved image.</dc:description><dc:description>With embossed ownership stamp of Thomas Mackinlay.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>