The execution of the eight surviving conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot in 1606 in London. Etching with engraving by C.J. Visscher.

  • Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652.
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The execution depicted shows the punishment of the eight surviving conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. The aim of the plot was the blowing up of the Houses of Parliament, a plan devised by Robert Catesby and several other Roman Catholics of rank. Guy Fawkes was detected preparing the explosives under the House of Lords and arrested. Catesby and three others died resisting arrest, but eight other members were executed in January 1606 and in May 1606 Father Henry Garnet died on the scaffold (see no 43487, this catalogue). An act of Parliament named the 5th November as a day for the nation to give thanks for its deliverance

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[Amsterdam?] : [C.J. Visscher?]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; sheet 23 x 33.5 cm

Lettering

Supplicum. De octo conjuratis in Britannia, diebus 30 et 31 Jan. styl vet. Anno MDCVI. Sumptum quidem seperatim de quaternis, sed tamen propter eandem omnino supplicii rationem, hac tabella coniunctim expressum. N. de Visscher fecit

Creator/production credits

Claes Jansz Visscher is also known as Nicolas Joannis Visscher, hence "N. de Visscher" in the lettering

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Wellcome Collection 43489i

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