Guy-Vaux discovered in his attempt to destroy the King & the House of Lords : his companions attempting to escape

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Guy-Vaux discovered in his attempt to destroy the King & the House of Lords : his companions attempting to escape
hand colored etching
image: 355 x 505 mm; plate: 355 x 505 mm; sheet: 363 x 515 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2732
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[London] : Pubd. by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, May 14, 1791
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Title from text in lower right corner of image.
Text below title: NB his associates were all taken afterwards & executed.

Summary: 

Fox as Guy Vaux kneels on one knee beside a pile of three barrels which he is about to fire with a lighted paper inscribed 'Rights of Man', holding up a dark lantern in his left hand. Burke, dressed as a watchman, rushes towards him and seizes Fox's left wrist, turning the rays of the lantern on his face, while he springs the rattle in his outstretched right hand.

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