2-356-549 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Oliver Cromwell, English soldier and statesman, (1816). Cromwell (1599-1658) commanded the forces of Parliament during the English Civil War. After the war England, Scotland and Ireland became a commonwealth. Cromwell was head of state as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth from 1653 until his death. A print from "Fifteen Splendid Portraits of Royal Personages", engraved in mezzotinto by Richard Earlom, Charles Turner and R Dunkarton, printed by J McCreery, Black Horse Court, Fleet Street, London, 1816.