print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1851,0308.548
- Title
- Object: Thomas Preston
- Description
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Portrait of the Cato Street conspirator Thomas Preston; half-length, standing in profile to right, weraing double-breasted coat, waistcoat with standing collar, and neckerchief; book-illustration. 1817
Stipple and etching
- Production date
- 1817
- Dimensions
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Height: 150 millimetres (cut)
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Width: 112 millimetres (cut)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Although Preston was close to fellow Spencean Philanthropists like James Watson and Arthur Thistlewood who led the Cato Street Conspiracy, he evaded prosection and went on to be involved in further radical politics with the Chartists in the 1840s.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: The Cato Street Conspiracy 1820
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1851,0308.548