Guy Faux Day

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Robert Seymour
1798-1836
Guy Faux Day
wood engraving
71 x 88 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2117a
Published: 
[London] : [William Strange], [ca. 1834]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Probably detached from one of four issues of Whiggeries and waggeries, London : William Strange, 1834. This publication reprinted wood engravings by Robert Seymour, Robert Cruikshank, and others which had previously appeared-- with different captions-- in Figaro in London, also published by Strange. The identical image appeared in Figaro in London, no. 49, 1832, with the same title.

Summary: 

Wellington, in uniform and cocked hat, but ragged, is carried in a chair as a 'Guy' by Cumberland and Newcastle. A bunch of matches is tied to one hand, a lantern to the other. Other Tories, among whom are Wetherell and Eldon, walk beside him, cheering. In the foreground runs a little chimney-sweep's boy, wearing a mitre, to represent Philipotts. A noose dangles from a gibbet.

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