John Lilburne. Engraving by Benoist after G. Glover.

  • Benoist, Guillaume Philippe, 1725-approximately 1770.
Date:
[between 1700 and 1799?]
Reference:
2015718i
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Description

John Lilburne, known as Freeborn John, a member of the Levellers, associate of Dr John Bastwick (imprisoned for anti-episcopal writings), puritan pamphleteer; opponent of royalism, catholicism and presbyterianism. Imprisoned for his writings, sentenced by the Star Chamber in 1638 to be whipped and pilloried

Publication/Creation

[London?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1700 and 1799?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 10.4 x 10.3 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Mr John Lilborne. Benoist sculp.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2015718i

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