File:The_Landing_of_Charles_II_at_Dover_1660_–_Edward_Matthew_Ward,_1864_–_Parliamentary_Art_Collection,_WOA_2609.png
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DescriptionThe Landing of Charles II at Dover 1660 – Edward Matthew Ward, 1864 – Parliamentary Art Collection, WOA 2609.png |
English: The Landing of Charles II at Dover 1660, by Edward Matthew Ward, 1864. Waterglass painted mural in the corridor of the House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster. Part of a series of murals depicting episodes in Charles II's life and the British constitutional history of the 17th century. The king retuning from exile, on the right, descends the gangway, hat doffed, as a sailor aboard his boat grasps the mooring-post securely. Ashore at the head of a sympathetic crowd, General George Monck doffs his hat and bows. In the left foreground a kneeling figure on the dockside cheers the king's restoration with a red cap (reminiscent of a liberty cap or Phrygian cap) thrust into the air. In the middle distance on the left a canopy is prepared for the king's welcome. In the background, Dover Castle and the white cliffs. N.B. that the royal boat's Union Flag shown at right has an anachronistic red saltire, a element only added to the British flag at the start of the 19th century. (Parliamentary Art Collection, WOA 2609.) Samuel Pepys, who was present, records the scene, writing that the king:
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