print;
satirical print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.3291
- Description
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Illustration to "The Plot in a Dream", page 115, consisting of four scenes, each with separate title: "5 Lords seduced by ye Jesuits" showing five well-dressed men in a park, one of whom offers a Jesuit a bag of money in exchange for a book; "ye Grand Consult at ye white horse" showing Titus Oates sitting at a table with jesuits and monks; "Kirby offering Oates Informations" showing a man presenting a paper to Oates and four other men, one of whom is perhaps intended to be Edmund Berry Godfrey; "The 2 Ruffians Attempting to kill the King" showing Grove and Pickering armed with guns while the king and his entourage walk through a park. 1681
Etching
- Production date
- 1681
- Dimensions
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Height: 132 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 69 millimetres (trimmed to image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Stephens describes the plates to the volume in the British Library (Grenville 3550) which also includes a folding plate showing the author dreaming of the Pope, Cardinals, etc. plotting against England; there are only three detached plates in the British Museum collection together comprising twelve scenes (see also 1868,0808.3292 and 3293). Copies of the volume in the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Union Theological Seminary, New York, are reproduced on Early English Books On-line
The author is identified by Stephens as Charles Blount.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Popish Plot 1678-1679
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Plot in a Dream: or the Discoverer in Masquerade in a Succint Discourse and Narrative of the late and present Designs of the Papists against the King and Government (1681)
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.3291
