Fawkes Gallery

The Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes and conspirators

Early 19th century impression of the main protagonists in the conspiracy to blow up Parliament in 1605. From left, Tesmond, Garnet, T. Percy, Catesby, I. Wright, Guy Fawkes, I. Winter and Sir Everard Digby. Date: 1832

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Guy Fawkes in Effigy, Bartholomew's Hospital

Guy Fawkes in Effigy, Bartholomew's Hospital and Smithfield Market. Children begging with an effigy of Guy Fawkes on 5 November 39, men bringing a patient on a stretcher into St. Bartholomew's Hospital 40 and drovers driving sheep into Smithfield Market 41. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Isaac Taylor from City Scenes, or a Peep into London, by Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor, published by Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, London, 1828. English sisters Ann and Jane Taylor were prolific Romantic poets and writers of children's books in the early 19th century

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Cartoon, The Great Guy of the Season (Disraeli)

Cartoon, The Great Guy of the Season -- a satirical comment on the Liberal Party threat to the Conservative Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli. Disraeli is depicted as the Bonfire Night Guy, being painted by Liberal MP John Bright, with his colleagues Gladstone and Hartington watching from the background. Date: 1879

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