This is an interesting picture, because it looks authentic and from the time but Anne Boleyn was executed with a sword, and I believe the area was on a patch of ground called Tower Green. Not up on a scaffold like this depicts.
I guess the artist was not in the know? Out of the loop? A columnist?
In the 16th Century, before photogarphy was invented and before you could travel 200 miles in less than one hour by booking a flight, artists did the best they could.
The important fact was not the fact that the Queen's head was chopped off with a sword or an axe.
The important fact was that the Queen's head WAS chopped off.