Conspiracy to Blow Up The Parliament: P.14704-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Conspiracy to Blow Up The Parliament
HB Sketches No. 189

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

Entities

Satirical print

Description

Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). An adaptation of the engraving by Heinrich Ullrich (c.1592-c.1631) of the conspirators of 1605. HB has added an eighth figure to the group, all half-length and wearing seventeenth-century dress. The names of the conspirators are not entirely as in the original (of which there are several version). From left to right: Denman (as 'Tesmond'; the name of the historical character is printed in the margin below the border), Brougham (as 'Garnet'), Grey (as 'T. Percy'), Durham (as 'Catesby'), Stanley (as 'I. [John] Wright'), Lord John Russell is Guy Fawkes with Althorp, to his right, as (I. [Thomas] Winter) and Lord Lansdowne as 'Sir Everard Digby'. Signed with monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'CONSPIRACY TO BLOW UP THE PARLIAMENT.'. Latin inscription printed below the title: 'CONSILIVM SEPTEM NOBILIVM ANGLORVM CONIVRANTIVM IN NECEM TOTIVSQ ANGLICI CONVOCATI PARLEMENTI.'. The publisher's details printed below: 'Published by Thos McLean, 26, Haymarket, April 4th 1832.'. Printed above the border at upper right: 'HB Sketches No 189.'. See 16987,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p.596.