A carriage representing "Radicalism" is being ransacked by a group of highwaymen, one of whom is wearing a shirt on which is written "Revolution". Lithograph after W. Morgan, 12 September 1885.

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12 September 1885
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564635i
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view A carriage representing "Radicalism" is being ransacked by a group of highwaymen, one of whom is wearing a shirt on which is written "Revolution". Lithograph after W. Morgan, 12 September 1885.

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A carriage representing "Radicalism" is being ransacked by a group of highwaymen, one of whom is wearing a shirt on which is written "Revolution". Lithograph after W. Morgan, 12 September 1885. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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"Radicalism" may refer to Joseph Chamberlain's Radical Programme, August 1885. Chamberlain is shown on the right playing a penny whistle (as featured in the Frith painting) and wearing a fur hat. His two other accomplices have not been identified. Inside the carriage a fainted or killed woman is labelled "Aristocracy". The woman who has stepped out of the carriage is Britannia. A man on the right who has been tied up by the highwaymen may be Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (to be verified)

Publication/Creation

London (47 Hatton Garden) : Ben George, 12 September 1885.

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colour ; image 27.4 x 42.9 cm

Lettering

The modern Claude Duval. St. Stephen's Review presentation cartoon, September 12th, 1885. Morgan

Reference

Wellcome Collection 564635i

Creator/production credits

A parody of William Powell Frith's painting Claude Duval (1860), of which an engraving by Lumb Stocks had been published in 1864, though the present composition is in reverse both to the painting and to the Stocks engraving

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