print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.3294
- Title
- Object: The Popish Damnable Plot
- Description
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A fragment of a broadside on the Popish and Meal-Tub Plots and other events of the time; with eight of twelve scenes: the Great Fire of London; the supposed attack on Edmund Berry Godfrey at Somerset House; a cleric preaching to a congregation during one of the "national days of humiliation" (13 November 1678 and 11 April 1679, as decreed by royal proclamation); the execution of the so-called Popish Plots; an encounter of two men, representing Dangerfield's attempt on the life of the Earl of Shaftesbury; Madame Cellier ejected from the presence of Shaftesbury; magistrate and constables searching Madame Cellier's house, discovering papers in a meal-tub and removing papers from a fire; Madame Cellier holding a board in front of her face, sitting at the pillory beside the maypole in the Strand. The scenes numbered I-VIII; letterpress title, wanting four further scenes, letterpress text including legend, and publication line. [(London, Baldwin: 1680)]
- Production date
- 1680
- Dimensions
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Height: 150 millimetres (engraving (fragment))
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Height: 232 millimetres (printed area (fragment))
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Width: 342 millimetres (engraving (cut within the platemark))
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Width: 351 millimetres (printed area)
- Curator's comments
- A complete impression of this broadside from the collection of Narcissus Luttrell is in the British Library C.20.f, iii.142).
For a photographic reproduction of a related broadside, see BM 1871-12-9-6508: A History of the New Plot..., London, Randolph Taylor, 1683 (BM Satires 1123).
The design was attributed to Barlow by Edward Hodnett (Francis Barlow: master of English book illustration, 1978)
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
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Associated Event: Popish Plot 1678-1679
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Associated Event: Meal-Tub Plot 1679
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Associated Event: Great Fire of London 1666
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.3294