drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1900,0725.1
- Description
-
Portrait of Arthur Thistlewood, Spencean agitator, charged for treason in 1817, nearly half-length, looking and turned slightly to left, wearing white stock, buff waistcoat and blue coat. 1817
Watercolour and bodycolour, on vellum
- Production date
- 1817
- Dimensions
-
Height: 144 millimetres
-
Width: 120 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- A stipple engraving by Holl of the four Spencean agitators charged but acquitted or released in 1817 for formenting riots in the City after a mass meeting on Spa Fields, Islington, on 2 December 1816 (see reg 1900,0725.1-4), after a painting by Scharf, was published 7 July, 1817.
Study for 1900,0725.1-4
See also 1862,1108.563 and 1865,0114.601
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1900,0725.1