civilis seditio

 

"The Aegyptian Pyramides & colossus" (Pyramids & Sphinx) anonymous engraver after a picture by George Sandys, published in Sandys Relation of a Journey begun An Dom. 1610

An emblem of the English Civil War with a double-headed snake crawling before the Egyptian pyramids with the head of the Sphinx at the left. 1643 /Wenceslas Hollar