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The opening of Parliament, or, The air gun-plot, or, The infamous attack on His Majesty / [I. Cruikshank].

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Isaac Cruikshank

The opening of Parliament, or, The air gun-plot, or, The infamous attack on His Majesty / [I. Cruikshank].

Published

[London] : Pub. N 2, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, 1797.

color engraving
image: 9 x 14 3/4 inches (228 x 375 mm); sheet: 10 3/8 x 15 11/16 inches (263 x 399 mm)
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1245
Notes
Watermark: "FINCH".
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

The King sits in his glass coach which is driven left and right and diagonally away from the spectator. He points with surprise at a hole in the glass formed by the impact of a blast from the posteriors of Fox, who is in a window to the right Stanhope leans on Fox's back directing the blast; within the window, but in shadow, is (?) Grey. Stones fly through the air and a dead cat lies on the roof of the coach, which is surrounded by an angry mob of half length figures; among them are two constables with long staves. The coachman lashes his horses. A man prepares to hurl a cat. A fainting woman is supported by an elderly man. An elderly and grotesque man (right) sits on the shoulders of another, applauding the outrage.

Associated names
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, engraver.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department