1-625-698 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Meeting of Henry VIII and Francis I, at The Field of Cloth of Gold', 1520, (1902). Portion of the central bas-relief of a series of five said to represent the Camp du Drap d'Or in the courtyard of the 15th-century Hotel de Bourgtheroulde, Rouen. Lavishly decorated tents were constructed at the field of the Cloth of Gold, the meeting place near Calais in France, where Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France met to arrange an alliance between their countries between June 7 and 24, 1520. From a painting in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court Palace. Illustration from Henry VIII, by A F Pollard, published by Goupil and Co, (London, New York, Paris, Edinburgh, 1902).