A Dutch broadside satirising Richard Cromwell, c1659. Richard Cromwell (centre) is shown as a cooper wearing a lion's skin, with copper's tools at his feet, destroying with a hammer a barrel from which bespectacled owls carrying burning candles escape. On the left a figure of Pickleherring, the clown, raising his arms; in the background two images, on the left showing Aesop's fable "The Frogs and King Stork", on the right a state proclamation taking place in a courtyard with the arms of the Commonwealth above an arch.

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Size: 4760px × 3679px
Photo credit: © The History Emporium / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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