A collection of 41 printed items that chronical the 1820 plot to murder the Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, and his cabinet, so named for location where the thirteen conspirators meet near Edgware Road in London. The police learned of the plot through an informer, George Edwards, leading to a police trap in which one policeman, Richard Smithers, was killed, but the plotters were apprehended. Five other conspirators were transported to Australia. The collection includes portraits of the plotters, views of the Cato Street area and the interior of the loft where they were found, broadsides describing the events (some with images), and descriptions of the execution of five of the conspirators. The collection includes a series of portrait prints by Robert Cooper after drawings by Abraham Wivell that were published as illustrations to Thomas Kelly's "The Cato Street Conspiracy" (1820). A drawing signed "Peter Jackson, July 31, 1960" is a 20th-century view of the exterior of the London building where the conspirators were discovered
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Many of the titles of the prints and broadsides are individually cataloged. Search by call number: LWL MSS 52., In English., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and London
Subject (Name):
Adams, Robert, active 1820., Hiden, Thomas, active 1820., Brunt, J. T. 1782?-1820. (John Thomas),, Cooper, Charles, active 1820., Davidson, William, 1786-1820., Edwards, George, 1788-1842., Ings, James, -1820., Monument, John, active 1820., Thistlewood, Arthur, 1770-1820., and Tidd, Richard, 1775?-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, Revolutionaries, History, Treason, and Criminals
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on prints on the same theme and similar design published in the 1780s., Unsigned; attributed to Henry William Bunbury., and Mounted on a French mat.
Title from dealer's catalog., Date based on approximate age of the sitter and the years the artist was active in the Walpole household., and Gilt-metal mount on velvet easel stand.
Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy available as in a pdf., Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Copiously extra-illustrated by Richard Bull with prints, drawings by John Carter, and Strawberry Hill Press detached pieces. Inlaid to folio probably before 1790, with letterpress pages and illustrations decorated with ruled edges, on fronts and backs of pages. Autograph memoranda by Walpole inserted. Coat of arms of Richard Bull painted inside cover. Formerly bound in russia, now in green morocco., and For further information, consult library staff.
