The Abraham Cowley
Text and Image Archive

Cromwell and adversaries

Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford

The Trial of Strafford

Henrietta Maria, Charles I's Queen

Prince Rupert, Charles I's nephew

Charles I

Cromwell at fifty-one

Links to
Cromwell felling
"The Royall Oake of Brittayne"
(reproduced from John Cooper's Oliver the First
[London: Natl. Portrait Gallery, 1999])
and
"The Embleme of ENGLANDS Distractions*,"
engr. William Faithorne, 1658 (British Library website)

*See discussion by Bruce Lawson, "The Body as a Political Construct: Oliver Cromwell's Image in William Faithorne's 1658 Emblematic Engraving," in Deviceful Settings: The English Renaissance Emblem and its Contexts, ed. M. Bath and D. Russell (New York, 1999), 113-38.

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