Oliver Cromwell dismisses Parliament, 1653, Waerachtighe Beeldhe, how the murderous and inmaginated Parliament is destroyed by order of Olivier Cromwel and his War Superior (title on object), Oliver Cromwell dissolves Parliament after his appointment as Lord Protector on 16 December 1653. Cromwell on the left with some supporters (General Lambert and Anthony Ashley Cooper), on the right the departing members of parliament, preceded by an owl with glasses and a candlestick. Inscriptions in English and Dutch in the performance. Pasted underneath the performance is a text in two columns in Dutch

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