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The Fifth of November or The Gun Powder Plot: P.14715-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Fifth of November or The Gun Powder Plot
HB Sketches No. 229

Maker(s)

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

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Description

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.

Legal notes

Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1895) by Foster, J.E., Mrs

Dating

19th Century
Production date: AD 1832-11-09

Note

Height 283mm x width 370mm

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14715-R
Primary reference Number: 225304
Stephens/George: 17297
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Audit data

Created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 Updated: Thursday 6 January 2022 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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