Drawing on History: The Gunpowder Plot
Mark Bryant looks at the rich tradition of cartoons and caricatures inspired by the Gunpowder Plot.
The 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill James I, his family and most of Britain's politicians and aristocracy also occasioned one of the country's first ever political prints, more than 70 years before the birth of William Hogarth.
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