Lord William Russell, 1639-1683 – Vintage Wall Art
![Lord William Russell, 1639-1683, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/23/239e81365dbf-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Lord William Russell, 1639-1683, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Lord William Russell, 1639-1683
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Lord William Russell, the sitter in this engraving, was a Whig politician who was executed in 1683 for his alleged part in the Rye House Plot, a conspiracy against Charles II and his brother James. His death made him a lasting symbol of opposition to the Stuart court. The likeness is an engraving by H. Robinson after a painting by Sir Peter Lely, the Dutch-born portraitist who shaped English court portraiture after the Restoration. The caption card gives no print date, but Lely died in 1680, so the original portrait must predate the execution.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by H. Robinson after Sir Peter Lely. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Pub.(2). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,079 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157473 |
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