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George Cruikshank
1792-1878
The Jacobite Club Pursued by the Guards
1842?
7 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches (187 x 225 mm)
Watercolor over graphite, on cream paper, laid down on white paper.
2006.39:10
Gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr.
Notes
Forms part of a collection of 20 drawings by Cruikshank to illustrate William Harrison Ainsworth's novel, The miser's daughter.
Drawing for an etched illustration for The miser's daughter, first published in book II, chapter 11 of Ainsworth's novel as it originally appeared as a serial publication in Ainsworth's Magazine, Volume I, 1842.
Drawing for an etched illustration for The miser's daughter, first published in book II, chapter 11 of Ainsworth's novel as it originally appeared as a serial publication in Ainsworth's Magazine, Volume I, 1842.
Inscriptions/Markings
Drawing is signed by the artist and inscribed with a title below image in pen and brown ink, numbered "10" at head sheet; on verso of mount: Vol. II, p. 35.
Summary
Drawing shows soldiers pursuing members of the Jacobite Club over the rooftops, Cordwell Firebras and Sir Norfolk making a stand to defend themselves, other conspirators escaping through a window to the right, people observing through the windows beyond, Westminster Abbey in the distance.
Associated names
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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