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].
[London] : Pub N 2, 1797, by SW Fores, No 50 Picca.dilly, 1797
Peel 1245
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[London] : Pub. N 2, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, 1797.
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Watermark: "FINCH".
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.

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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.

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