Cavalier Gallery

Guy Fawkes, leader of the Gunpowder Plot, caught in

Guy Fawkes, leader of the Gunpowder Plot, caught in the cellar of the Houses of Parliament, 5 November 1604. William Parker, Baron Monteagle, and Theophilus Howard, Earl of Suffolk, finding Fawkes and barrels of gunpowder in the basement. Discovery of Guido Fawkes by Suffolk and Monteagle. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett's Comic History of England, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London, 1880

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Pigeon Columba livia breeds: pigeon cavalier

Pigeon Columba livia breeds: pigeon cavalier faraud, pigeon lillois elegant. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39. Date:

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Old Rose - A Cavaliers Drinking Song

Old Rose - A Cavalier's Drinking Song - "Now we're met like jovial fellows, let us do as wise men tell us, Sing Old Rose & burn the bellows, Let us do as wise men tell us - Sing etc." Date: 1653

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