Framed antique etching.

Title: "Radical Parliament" - the Plan to Assassinate Her Magestie's Ministers, an image of the last major insurrection in Great Britain, known as Guy Fawkes's Cato Street Conspiracy.

George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878, British)

Creation Year: 1835

Etching Dimensions: 5.5” x 8.75”

Wood Frame: 10” x 13”

No Glass

London: Thomas Mclean, 1835. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 5.5 x 8.75 inches full margin. An excellent inked impression, bright, with the best extensive hand coloring. Paper taped to mount at recto.

In antique frame and taped onto early mat. No Glass.

The Cato Street Conspiracy was a plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool in 1820. The name comes from the meeting place near Edgware Road in London.