2-697-164 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Cromwell at the 'Blue Boar', Holborn, London', 1640, (c1883), (c1902). After a painting in the Dudley Museums Service collection. Victorian depiction of a scene at the Blue Boar inn, in which Oliver Cromwell supposedly intercepted a letter from King Charles I. Soldiers search a messenger's bags and find the letter detailing plans for the King to join forces with the Scots in order to thwart Cromwell's rebellion. From The Nation's Pictures. A selection from the finest modern paintings in the public picture galleries of Great Britain, reproduced in colour. [Cassell and Company Ltd, London, c1902]