Loving these illustrations of a rather round King Henry VIII in 'The Comic History of England' By Gilbert Abbott Beckett. 😃

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7th March 1530
Pope Clement VII forbade King Henry VIII from marrying again until the annulment case concerning his first marriage had been decided.

https://t.co/WFHDz6T9F6

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One of my fifth graders is writing a paper on Henry the 8th. So In art I taught them how to think through shapes and we decided to draw King Henry viii. This is the second take I did on him.

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‘When dying clouds contend with growing light,
What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,
Can neither call it perfect day nor night.’

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