drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1891,0617.22
- Description
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Satire on Cromwell's government, study for a print; Oliver Cromwell seated on a throne, his feet on a document, on the right a man (Hugh Peter) with a pair of bellows blowing wind into Cromwell's ear. To the left of them are Members of Parliament: including Robert Blake and Thomas Fairfax who gestures to a group of kneeling and imploring women, other figures to left and boats on the Thames behind, a small scene above with Admiral Tromp bleeding Cromwell. 1652
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1652
- Dimensions
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Height: 258 millimetres
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Width: 324 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Acquired as by William Schellinks. It is the original drawing in reverse and with a number of differences, for the engraving printed on a Dutch Broadside titled 'Krachteloose Staat-Sucht' (Impotent Ambition). See the 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', Vol.I, 1870, No.849; F Muller, 'Nederlandsche Historiplaten', No.2042; 'Atlas van Stolk', II (1897), No.2187; see 1868,0808.3244 and 1870,079.284.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: First Anglo-Dutch War 1652-1654
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1891,0617.22
