The Fifth of November or The Gun Powder Plot HB Sketches No. 229
Printmaker:
Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher:
McLean, Thomas
Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). Talleyrand, as Guy Fawkes and wearing seventeenth-century clothes with a tricolour cockade in his hat, directs a lantern whose beam is labelled, 'HOLLAND' at two officers approaching from the left, representing Russia and Austria. Palmerston, another cloaked conspirator, sneaks off to the right. Signed with monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER / or / _THE GUN POWDER PLOT_.'. The publisher's details printed below left: 'Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, Nov. 9th 1832.'. A small, circular blind stamp at lower left: 'THOs. MCLEAN'. Printer's details below the border at lower right: 'A. Ducôté's Lithogy. 70, St Martins Lane.'. Printed above the border at upper right: 'HB Sketches No. 229'. See 17297_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, pp.699-700.
Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895
Method of acquisition: Given (1895) by Foster, J.E., Mrs
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1832-11-09
Height 283mm x width 370mm
Accession number: P.14715-R
Primary reference Number: 225304
Stephens/George: 17297
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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