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Museum number: 1871,1209.6512
Title: Object: A Representation of The Popish Plot in 29 Figures, as ye manner of killing Sr Edmond-bury Godfrey, & their horid designes to kill the King, and the manner of the Plotters Execution
Description: Photograph of twenty-nine scenes in five rows taken from cards in the Popish Plot Pack pack (see Willshire English 186, etc.), all labelled with explanations: the Pope and Cardinals hatching the Plot in Rome; the Great Fire of London; Godfrey taking Oates's deposition; Oates reveals the Plot to the King and Council; murder of Edmund Berry Godfrey; Godfrey's body taken in a sedan chair from Somerset House; then by horse to Primrose Hill; his funeral; Prance names the alleged murderers to the King and Council; execution of alleged murderers; Coleman paying ruffians to kill the King; four ruffians setting out for Windsor on horseback; Pickering's lies in wait to kill the King in St James's Park; Coleman writing letters to Père La Chaise; Bedloe taking letters abroad; Redding attempting to corrupt Captain Bedloe; Redding pilloried; Everard imprisoned; execution of 5 Jesuits; Ashby receiving instructions from Whitbread on behalf of the Society of Jesus to offer money to Sir George Wakeman; Ireland and Grove drawn to execution; Coleman drawn to execution; Sir William Waller burning Popish books and images; Pickering executed; Gifford and Stubbs giving money to a maid to fire her mistress's house; Captain Berry and Alderman Brooks given money to blame protestants for the Plot; Dugdale reading letters relating to the Plot; Whitbread made Provincial; Stafford's beheading. Photograph
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Production date: 1678 (circa (original print))
Production place: Published in: London (England)
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Dimensions: Height: 320 millimetres (image); Height: 242 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Stephens describes a photograph of an impression in the collection of James Holbert Wilson, Esq., but the present photograph is described in the register as one of five photographs of prints in the collection of J E Gardner (1871, 1209.6508 to 6512)
Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (1067); Muller 1863-1882 / De Nederlandsche Geschiedenis in Platen. Beredeneerde Beschrijving van Nederlandsche Historieplaten (2529)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; catholicism; christian cleric; murder/murderer; litter/sedan chair; funeral/funerary rite; execution; punishment; conspirator
Associated names: Representation of: Titus Oates; Representation of: Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey; Representation of: Charles II, King of England; Representation of: Gerald; Representation of: Edward Coleman; Representation of: Thomas Pickering; Representation of: Père François de la Chaise; Representation of: Miles Prance; Representation of: William Bedloe; Representation of: Nathaniel Redding; Representation of: Edmund Everard; Representation of: Ashby; Representation of: Thomas Whitbread; Representation of: William Grove; Representation of: Sir William Waller; Representation of: Sir George Wakeman; Representation of: Stubbs; Representation of: Henry Berry; Representation of: William Brooks; Representation of: William Ireland; Representation of: Stephen Dugdale; Representation of: William Howard, 1st Baron and Viscount Stafford; Associated with: John Edmund Gardner
Associated places: Associated with: London
Associated events: Associated Event: Popish Plot 1678; Associated Event: Great Fire of London 1666
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Acquisition date: 1871
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1871,1209.6512

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