Three-quarter length portrait of John Bellingham, assassin of the Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, standing in profile to the right, holding an open letter in his left hand and his right hand on the rail
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher identified as Robert Dighton in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0308.103., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Leaf 15 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bellingham, John, 1770-1812,, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812., and Bellingham, John, 1770-1812.
Subject (Topic):
Assassins, Prisoners, Trials (Murder), Assassinations, Criminals, and Judicial proceedings
A scene of the assassination of George Viliers, 1st Duke of Buckingham by a former Army offiicer, John Felton, in Portsmouth
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Bound in facing page 566 in the second volume of an extra-illustrated copy of: Bayley, J. History and antiquities of the Tower of London.
Publisher:
Published July 1822, by H. Rodd, 17, Little Newport Stt. Leicester Square
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628, and Felton, John, 1595?-1628,
