Oliver Cromwell.- Anonymous English artist (circa 1649) The Royall Oake of Brittayne, satire depicting Cromwell and parliamentarians over-seeing the destruction of the 'Royall Oake', with the branches of the great tree containing books representing the Magna Carta, the Bible, and the Royal Coat of Arms, originally the frontispiece to Clement Walker's 'Anarchie Anglicana, or, The History of Independency, the Second Part', etching and engraving, on laid paper without watermark, off-setting from another impression on verso, sheet 170 x 230 mm. (6 3/4 x 9 in), faint central vertical fold with some splitting and support verso, minor loss to upper left corner, some small nicks and tears, unframed, 1649. Provenance: Denstone College Library; de-accessioned Literature: BM Satires 737 cf. M. Jones 'The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight', New Haven and London, 2010, pp. 102.
Oliver Cromwell.- Anonymous English artist (circa 1649) The Royall Oake of Brittayne, satire depicting Cromwell and parliamentarians over-seeing the destruction of the 'Royall Oake', with the branches of the great tree containing books representing the Magna Carta, the Bible, and the Royal Coat of Arms, originally the frontispiece to Clement Walker's 'Anarchie Anglicana, or, The History of Independency, the Second Part', etching and engraving, on laid paper without watermark, off-setting from another impression on verso, sheet 170 x 230 mm. (6 3/4 x 9 in), faint central vertical fold with some splitting and support verso, minor loss to upper left corner, some small nicks and tears, unframed, 1649. Provenance: Denstone College Library; de-accessioned Literature: BM Satires 737 cf. M. Jones 'The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight', New Haven and London, 2010, pp. 102.
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