Print, satirical print, frontispiece (BM 1868,0808.3253)

Allegorical frontispiece to J Nalson, "A True Copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice for the Tryal of King Charles I" representing the interregnum; a figure representing Cromwell in armour and with the limbs of wolf rides in a chariot drawn by two griffins breathing flames and driven by a female devil; on the tip of Cromwell's sword is a pair of scales in which a bunch of feathers, labelled "Liberty", outweighs the crown, church, sceptre and orb; at his feet are three crowned women, manacled and weeping, who represent England, Scotland and Ireland; Cromwell seizes the crown of the figure of England while behind him a little devil holds up the coat-of-arms of the Commonwealth of England; the bodies of Charles I, with his head off, and Justice are crushed beneath the wheels of the chariot, the spokes of which wheels are swords and the hubs of which emit fire; behind the chariot, a naked winged figure is imprisoned in chains; in the background, a ruined mansion stands in a rural scene in which wolves pursue a flock of sheep and a hawk swoops down upon a small bird which has escaped from a cage.
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