IDENTIFIERS
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id:	8559
accession number:	901(2)c

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 24 November 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: One of a group of 9 sketches by William Wolfe Alais, each depicting members of the Chartist movement, 8 of whom are named in pencil inscriptions. 

This portrait was previously titled 'Sketch of Chartist Prisoner, taken in Court: Sankey,' on the basis of a handwritten note made by the collector Charles Fairfax Murray when he donated the sketches to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1917. The note identifies the group of drawings as '9 Original Pencil Sketches by W. W. Alais taken in court at the trial of the Chartist prisoners.' However, it is likely that the drawings were actually made at the first Chartist Convention ('The General Convention of the Industrious Classes,' London, 4 February, 1839), as the 8 names inscribed on Alais' drawings can be identified as delegates at the convention. No trial at which all 8 of the named men appeared has yet been identified.
title:	drawing

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/8559





TECHNIQUES
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graphite on paper, laid down
drawing (image-making)

CATEGORIES
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category: drawing

DATING
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CREATORS
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maker: Alais, William Wolfe

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: mm
value: 111

dimension: Width
units: mm
value: 88



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