2-715-739 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex', c1590-1600, (1890). Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565-1601) English nobleman and favourite of Elizabeth I, was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years' War in 1599. In 1601, he led an abortive coup d'état against the government and was executed for treason. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]