Caption:
Oliver Cromwell, died September 3, 1658. Cromwell, English Civil War politician and soldier, regicide of King Charles I of England, and Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, 1599-1658. With his autograph and seal. Within a frame decorated with vignettes of skull and cross bones, chains and executioners axe, a man hanging from a gibbet at Tyburn, a condemned man on a sled, the Tower of London, Newgate Prison. Copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper, portrait engraved by Burnet Reading, from James Caulfields The High Court of Justice, London, 1820.