An etching with hand-colouring of John, King of England. View of the effigy of King John, from the tomb at Worcester Cathedral. Whole length, with crown and robes, holding sword in left hand, with two religious figures behind. With hand-coloured sample of decoration on either side. With English inscription, including publisher's address, 'London Published as the Act directs, June 1, 1814 by C. A. Stothard Junr. 28 Newman Street Oxford Street.' Plate from Charles Alfred Stothard's The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, which he worked on from 1811 until his death in 1821. Stothard originally published etchings of his plates serially, and following his death in 1821 his widow Anna Eliza Bray, re-issued the plates as a full volume in 1832.