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

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.

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