The opening of Parliament, or, The air gun-plot, or, The infamous attack on His Majesty / [I. Cruikshank].
[London] : Pub. N 2, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, 1797.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.