drawing; album

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Object Type: drawing; album
Museum number: 1954,0710.4.54
Description: Design for a playing-card from an album of 61 satirical illustrations of events from the period of the Rump Parliament (1648-53), the Popish Plot (1678) and the Meal Tub Plot (1680); Mrs Cellier in the pillory, episode connected with the Meal Tub Plot, September 1680 Pen and brown ink, with grey wash over graphite
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Production date: 1678-1680
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Dimensions: Height: 79 millimetres; Width: 51 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Engraved for the Meal Tub Plot Pack (Willshire, E.187-3), Queen of Diamonds. From album 1954,0710.4.1-61; for further information, see 1954,0710.4.1
Bibliographic references: Croft-Murray 1960 / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum, XVI and XVII centuries (137(54)); Stainton & White 1987 / Drawing in England from Hilliard to Hogarth (114)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1964 Dec-May, BM, Hogarth, no.21 1987 June-Aug, BM Hilliard to Hogarth no.114 1987 Sept-Nov, New Haven, Hilliard to Hogarth
Subjects: punishment; card-playing
Associated names
Associated events: Associated Event: Meal Tub Plot 1680; Associated Event: Popish Plot
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Andrew Fountaine; Previous owner/ex-collection: Henry Scipio Reitlinger
Acquisition date: 1954
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1954,0710.4.54

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