drawing; print study

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Object Type: drawing; print study
Museum number: 1891,0617.22
Description: 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
Producer name: Drawn by: Anonymous; Formerly attributed to: Willem Schellinks
School/style
Production date: 1652
Materials
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Dimensions: Height: 258 millimetres; Width: 324 millimetres
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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.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; politics; english; parliament
Associated names: Representation of: Oliver Cromwell; Representation of: Hugh Peter; Representation of: Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax; Representation of: Admiral Robert Blake; Representation of: Maerten van Tromp
Associated events: Associated Event: First Anglo-Dutch War 1652-1654
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1891
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1891,0617.22

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