print study;
drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1954,0710.4.1
- Description
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Design for a playing-card from an album of 61 illustrations of events from the period of the Rump Parliament (1648-53), the Popish Plot (1678) and the Meal Tub Plot (1680), bound in red morocco and gilt tooled with the Fountaine crest
Pen and brown ink, with grey wash
Charles Worsley as a weaver at a loom; episode connected with the Rump Parliament
- Production date
- 1648-1680
- Dimensions
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Height: 78 millimetres
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Width: 52 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Engraved anonymously, in reverse, for the six of hearts in the Rump Parliament pack (Willshire, E.195).
From album 1954,0710.4.1-61, first published by Paul Hulton, BMQ XX 1955/6, pp.8-10. . See L Stainton and C. White, 'Drawing in England from Hilliard to Hogarth', (1987), Nos 111-114, for further bibliographical references. For the playing-cards, see Willshire, E.186-8; Schreiber, E.57-9; and Schreiber, E.62-3.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
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Associated Event: Rump Parliament 1648-1653
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Associated Event: Popish Plot
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Associated Event: Meal Tub Plot
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Acquisition notes
- The leather binding has the elephant crest of Sir Andrew Fountaine of Narford Hall. According to the report to the Trustees dated 7 July 1954, Mr Benger had bought it at one of the sales of Captain H.S.Reitlinger.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1954,0710.4.1