The Happy Instruments of Englands Preservation
after Francis Barlow
1681
British Museum
From the British Museum description:
Satirical broadside on the Popish Plot, with an engraving, on two levels. At the top the apotheosis of the witnesses to the Plot, Titus Oates, Miles Prance, Stephen Dugdale and William Bedloe, sitting on clouds and crowned with laurel wreaths by two cherubim; on either side are angels, one carrying a flaming sword and holding a model of the church, the other with a banner and the crown of England that has been protected by the witnesses. Above is another semi-circle of clouds inhabited by angels heads from which issues a ray of light penetrating to the lower level where it points to the Pope sitting at a table, labelled "The Infernall Conclave", with cardinals and Jesuits, a devil speaking into his ear; on the left Madame Cellier stands beside the overturned Meal-Tub and on the right Sir George Wakeman holds "A bill for £15000 to poison the King", behind him the scene of the execution of Viscount Stafford at the Tower of London; on the left three Turks observe conclave.
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