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Authors: Simon Schama
A History of Britain, Volume 2 (77 page)
Charles I on Horseback
, engraving by Peter Lombart after Anthony Van Dyck,
c.
1655.
Oliver Cromwell on Horseback
, engraving by Peter Lombart after Anthony Van Dyck,
c.
1655.
Cromwell's death mask, 1658.
James Graham, First Marquis of Montrose
, attributed to William Dobson,
c.
1640.
The Great Fire of London
, Dutch School,
c
. 1666.
Samuel Pepys
, by John Hayls, 1666. Pepys recorded sitting for his portrait in his diary, complaining, âI . . . do almost break my neck looking over my shoulders to make the posture for him [Hayls] to work by'.
Sir Christopher Wren, Kt, President of the Royal Society,
by an unknown artist,
c
. 1675, celebrating his completion of St Paul's.
A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish-Plot, the first part
. . . (detail), 1682. A burlesque on the Popish Plot illustrating âHow Sir Godfrey Berry is Kill'd, his Body they hide . . . how Jesuits disguis'd, our Houses do fire; How subtly they Plot, and King's Death Conspire; Of divers Great Lords drawn in . . . An Army of Irish, and Pilgrims from Spain'.
William III Landing at Torbay
, by Jan Wyck,
c
. 1688. Behind him, on the shores of Torbay, William's Protestant forces land safely, blown by a fair east wind.
William and Mary Giving the Cap of Liberty to Europe
, by James Thornhill,
c
. 1700â20, detail from the ceiling of the Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital. Flanked by the Virtues in heaven, William and Mary represent Peace and Liberty vanquishing Tyranny, symbolized by Louis XIV's broken sword.
George I
, studio of Godfrey Kneller,
c
. 1730.
Sir Robert Walpole as Master of the King's Staghounds in Windsor Forest
(detail), by John Wootton,
c
. 1730.
The Committee of the House of Commons
(the Gaols Committee)
, by William Hogarth, 1729, possibly painted in Fleet Prison, London. The prisoner in full irons might have been the Portuguese, Jacob Medez Solas, one of the first debtors to be gaoled in Fleet Prison.
, engraving by Peter Lombart after Anthony Van Dyck,
c.
1655.
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, engraving by Peter Lombart after Anthony Van Dyck,
c.
1655.
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, attributed to William Dobson,
c.
1640.
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, Dutch School,
c
. 1666.
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, by John Hayls, 1666. Pepys recorded sitting for his portrait in his diary, complaining, âI . . . do almost break my neck looking over my shoulders to make the posture for him [Hayls] to work by'.
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by an unknown artist,
c
. 1675, celebrating his completion of St Paul's.
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. . . (detail), 1682. A burlesque on the Popish Plot illustrating âHow Sir Godfrey Berry is Kill'd, his Body they hide . . . how Jesuits disguis'd, our Houses do fire; How subtly they Plot, and King's Death Conspire; Of divers Great Lords drawn in . . . An Army of Irish, and Pilgrims from Spain'.
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, by Jan Wyck,
c
. 1688. Behind him, on the shores of Torbay, William's Protestant forces land safely, blown by a fair east wind.
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, by James Thornhill,
c
. 1700â20, detail from the ceiling of the Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital. Flanked by the Virtues in heaven, William and Mary represent Peace and Liberty vanquishing Tyranny, symbolized by Louis XIV's broken sword.
Â
, studio of Godfrey Kneller,
c
. 1730.
Â
(detail), by John Wootton,
c
. 1730.
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(the Gaols Committee)
, by William Hogarth, 1729, possibly painted in Fleet Prison, London. The prisoner in full irons might have been the Portuguese, Jacob Medez Solas, one of the first debtors to be gaoled in Fleet Prison.
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