"The Explosion at Holbeach" — Cruikshank's eighteenth monthly illustration for Ainsworth's Guy Fawkes (1841) (original) (raw)

The Explosion at Holbeach

George Cruikshank

June 1841

Steel-engraving

12.2 cm high by 9.5 cm wide vignetted, facing Book the Third, Chapter IV, p. 295 in the volume; facing p. 566 in Bentley's, Vol. 9.

Eighteenth monthly engraving for W. Harrison Ainsworth's Guy Fawkes, or The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Romance.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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