Leonard preventing the Earl of Rochester's Marriage with Amabel in the Choir of Saint Paul's
Artist: John Franklin (circa 1806 – circa 1881/91)
Engraver: John Franklin
1841; 1847 edition
Steel-plate etching
9.5 cm high by 14.5 cm wide
Ninth illustration by this artist for W. H. Ainsworth’s historical romance, Old St. Paul’s: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire, facing p. 122 for Book the Second, "May 1665," Chapter VI, "Old London from Saint Paul's."
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Scanned image by Simon Cooke, color correction and sizing by George P. Landow. Caption and commentary by Philip V. Allingham.