The Walnut Tree of Emperor Charles V, Yuste. Artist: Charles Clifford (Welsh, 1819-1863). Dimensions: Image: 41.6 × 30 cm (16 3/8 × 11 13/16 in.)Mount: 62.3 × 47.4 cm (24 1/2 × 18 11/16 in.). Date: 1858.In May 1858, Clifford accompanied the Duke of Frías on a trip to Toledo and Extremadura. One of the principal goals of the excursion was the remote town of Yuste, where the king of Spain, Charles I (better known as the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V), had retired. During the eighteen months prior to his death in 1558, the former ruler of the largest empire the world had ever known resided there at the Hieronymite monastery. Perhaps in homage to his death three hundred years earlier, Clifford made two darkling views of the ruinous monastery in which gloomy, hooded monks appear. He also made this photograph, of a magnificent old tree, known as the Emperor's Walnut Tree, whose branches trap the sun, creating a sanctuary of shade. Whether the emperor had some historic relation to it, or whet

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The Walnut Tree of Emperor Charles V, Yuste. Artist: Charles Clifford (Welsh, 1819-1863). Dimensions: Image: 41.6 × 30 cm (16 3/8 × 11 13/16 in.)Mount: 62.3 × 47.4 cm (24 1/2 × 18 11/16 in.). Date: 1858.In May 1858, Clifford accompanied the Duke of Frías on a trip to Toledo and Extremadura. One of the principal goals of the excursion was the remote town of Yuste, where the king of Spain, Charles I (better known as the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V), had retired. During the eighteen months prior to his death in 1558, the former ruler of the largest empire the world had ever known resided there at the Hieronymite monastery. Perhaps in homage to his death three hundred years earlier, Clifford made two darkling views of the ruinous monastery in which gloomy, hooded monks appear. He also made this photograph, of a magnificent old tree, known as the Emperor's Walnut Tree, whose branches trap the sun, creating a sanctuary of shade. Whether the emperor had some historic relation to it, or whet

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