2-634-604 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'England's Miraculous Preservation Emblematically Described, Erected for a Perpetual Monument to Posterity',1646 (1903). An allegory showing the Ark of England containing three chambers, the House of Lords, House of Commons and the Assembly, with portraits identified as the Earl of Essex (1591-1646), Earl of Warwick (1587-1658), Earl of Manchester (1602-1671), General David Leslie (c1600-1682), Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612-1671) and Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658). From London in the Time of the Stuarts, by Sir Walter Besant. [Adam & Charles Black, London, 1903].