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Published / Created:: [5 August 1786]
Call Number:: 786.08.05.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Margaret Nicholson is shown in a large bonnet and shawl holding a knife in her left hand as she attempts to stab King George III as he stands before his royal carriage. She hands the King a folded note (?) which they both grasp. One of the two Beefea...
Alternative Title:: Exact representation of an attempt made by Margaret Nicholson to stab his Majesty
Description:: Title from caption etched below image.
Publisher:: Pub'd Augt. 5 1786 by W.S. [sic] Fores at the Caracature Ware-house, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Nicholson, Margaret, 1750?-1828.
Subject (Topic):: Assassination attempts, Assassinations, Carriages & coaches, and Guards
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An exact representation of an attempt made by Margt. Nicholson to stab his Majesty on Wednesday Augt. 2, 1786 [graphic].

Published / Created:: [not before 2 August 1786]
Call Number:: 786.08.00.03+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Margaret Nicholson is restrained by two Beefeaters after her attempted assassination of King George IV as he stands next to his Royal carriage at the garden entrance of St. James's Palace
Alternative Title:: Attentat de Marguerite Nicholson contre Son Majesté le roi George III
Description:: Title etched below image, English on the left, French on the right.
Publisher:: Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820,, and Nicholson, Margaret, 1750?-1828,
Subject (Topic):: Assassination attempts, Assassinations, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Crowds, Guards, Kings, and Uniforms
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Margaret Nicholson attempting to assassinate His Majesty King George III : at the garden entrance of St. James's Palace, 2d August 1786 [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 November 1795]
Call Number:: 795.11.01.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The King sits impassively in his badly damaged state coach, which is being assailed by a mob; facing him sit two courtiers in abject terror. Pitt (right), dressed as the coachman, drives furiously, lashing the horses, the hind legs only of the wheele...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804
Subject (Topic):: Assassination attempts, Britannia (Symbolic character), Carriages & coaches, Cats, Coach drivers, Crowds, Riots, Sansculottes, and Servants
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The republican-attack [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 November 1795]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 3
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The King sits impassively in his badly damaged state coach, which is being assailed by a mob; facing him sit two courtiers in abject terror. Pitt (right), dressed as the coachman, drives furiously, lashing the horses, the hind legs only of the wheele...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804
Subject (Topic):: Assassination attempts, Britannia (Symbolic character), Carriages & coaches, Cats, Coach drivers, Crowds, Riots, Sansculottes, and Servants
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The republican-attack [graphic].