King Charles I at Titchfield, Hampshire, having escaped from Hampton Court, learns that the governor of the Isle of Wight will betray him to Cromwell. Engraving by B. Baron after P. Angellis.

"When the king escaped from Hampton Court on the night of 1112 November (apparently fearing assassination by the Levellers), mainly on the advice of John Ashburnham Charles ended up on the Hampshire coast; instead of bending every effort to procure a vessel to take him across the channel, as common sense dictated and as his other attendant, Sir John Berkeley, claimed to have advised, his presence was revealed to [Robert] Hammond [governor of the Isle of Wight], who crossed over to Titchfield, and from 14 November Charles was incarcerated in Carisbrooke Castle on the island. Writing some eighteen years later, the great royalist historian Clarendon blamed Ashburnham for this as it turned out fatal outcome. The assertion that, on learning of Hammond's presence downstairs in the house at Titchfield, the king 'brake out in a passionate exclamation, and said "Oh, Jack thou hast undone me"', but then forbade Ashburnham to try to kill Hammond, may be apocryphal, and indicative of the writer's personal preference for Berkeley (Clarendon, Hist. rebellion, 4.265)." (Oxford dictionary of national biography). The house is Place House, the seat of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, built on the site of Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire

In the background, two large Italianate landscape paintings hang on the walls, while two others serve as an overmantel and an overdoor

[London] : [Tho. Bowles], [1728]

1 print : etching and engraving ; platemark 41.2 x 47 cm

The King's escape from Hampton Court in Nov. 1647. King Charles remaining a prisoner at Hampton Court receiv'd advice that there was a design to assassinate him ... who immediately acquainted Cromwell where he was. Le Roy s'echapa d'Hampton Court le 11 Nov. 1647. Le Roy Charles etant prisonier à Hampton Court receut avis qu'on avoit dessein de l'assasin.r ... qui aussitot fit savoir à Cromwell ou il etoit. Angelis pinx. ; B. Baron sc.

Timothy Clayton, The English print, 1688-1802, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, pp. 56-57 (on the series)

Wellcome Collection 2897017i