An engraving of Louis XIII, King of France. Bust length with curled hair, moustache, closed ruff, embroidered doublet, and sash. The King is pictured standing with drapery behind and with putti supporting a crown above. With Latin inscription above  "LOVIS LE IVSTE XIII. DV NOM, PAR LA GRACE DE DIEV ROY DE FRAN. ET DE NAVA."; and with further French verses below: "Voicy la merueille des Roys ... // … Encore vn autre SAINCT LOVYS.; // I. Honeruogt excudit // Auec Priuilege du Roy. // L. Gaultier incidit wn". This print is a pair to RCIN 616866.

This print formed part of an album of French royal portrait prints assembled by Cassiano dal Pozzo in Rome and described in an early nineteenth-century inventory of prints in George III's library as Kings of France, Queens and other illustrious Personages. The album was arranged chronologically, with kings and their consorts together, while the latter part of the album was devoted to the female aristocracy of France. It was dismantled later in the nineteenth century and its prints incorporated into the series of Engraved Royal Portraits (organised dynastically).

For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. 1254.