Plot Collection (#2)

The Death of Pichegru, 1804, (1896). Artist: M Haider
The Death of Pichegru, 1804, (1896). French general Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761-1804) was involved in a royalist conspiracy to remove Napoleon from power

Sindercombes Cottage, Shepherds Bush, Hammersmith, London, 1890. The cottage was allegedly used by Miles Sindercombe and his fellow conspirators in the plot to assassinate Oliver Cromwell in 1657

Cato Street, Marylebone, London, 1820. Artist: F Moser
Cato Street, Marylebone, London, 1820. View of Cato Street with a description of the capture of the conspirators who were plotting to assassinate the British Cabinet in 1820

Cato Street conspiracy, 1820. Artist: William Henry Harriott
Cato Street conspiracy, 1820. Interior view of the hayloft in Cato Street in Marylebone, London, occupied by the conspirators who were plotting to assassinate the British Cabinet in 1820

Cato Street conspiracy, 1820. Sketch of the premises on Cato Street, Marylebone, London, where Arthur Thistlewood and his associates unsuccessfully plotted to assassinate the British Cabinet

Cato Street conspiracy, 1820. Artist: F Moser
Cato Street conspiracy, 1820. Interior view of the secretarys room, adjoining the hayloft where Arthur Thistlewood, ringleader of the Cato Street Conspiracy, killed the arresting officer

The Cato Street conspirators... 1820. Artist: George Cruikshank
The Cato Street conspirators... 1820. Three Bow Street officers have entered the loft above the stable; the foremost, Richard Smithers

Execution of Guy Fawkes, Illustration from Guy Fawkes, or the Gunpowder Treason: an Historical Romance, by William Harrison Ainsworth, pub. 1841 (engraving)

Guy Fawkes, caught in the act of preparing the Gunpowder Plot, 1605 (c1900). Artist
Guy Fawkes, caught in the act of preparing the Gunpowder Plot, 1605 (c1900). Fawkes (1570-1606) was an English conspirator who attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament on November 5th 1605

The Cuban insurrectionistss meeting in their headquarters, on the corner of Rector Street and Broa Artist
The Cuban insurrectionistss meeting in their headquarters, on the corner of Rector Street and Broadway, c1868, (1938). From Adventures of America 1857-1900, by John A

Examination of John Daly, alias Denman, at the Birkenhead police court, 1884. Court case involving the dynamite plot. Illustration from the The Graphic, (3 May 1884)

Elizabeth at Traitors Gate, 1902. Artist: Patten Wilson
Elizabeth at Traitors Gate, 1902. Princess Elizabeth later Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was imprisoned from 18th March to 22nd May 1554 for an alleged plot against her sister Queen Mary I (1516-1558)

Robert Fay (on the left) and his two accomplices photographed in court, 1915. Robert Fay was a German spy during WWI who was convicted of trying to sabotage ships in American harbors

Gun Powder Treason, c1605 (1903). Dutch engraving depicting the Eye of Heaven condemning Guy Fawkes (1570-1606), the conspirator who was involved in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of

The following morning Cicero made another speech against Catiline, c1912 (1912). Artist: Ernest Dudley Heath
The following morning Cicero made another speech against Catiline, c1912 (1912). Marcus Tullius Cicero discovered a second plot by Lucius Sergius Catiline to murder the Consuls

Titus Oates before the Privy Council, 1678 (1905). Oates fabricated the so-called Popish Plot, a Catholic conspiracy to murder King Charles II

Surprise of the Cato Street conspirators, London, 1820 (1906). Artist: Paul Hardy
Surprise of the Cato Street conspirators, London, 1820 (1906). The Cato Street Conspiracy involved the planned assassination of British Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and his entire cabinet

Queens Who Cut the Bogs of Glanna, Judith of Scripture, and Glorianna, 1910. Artist: Harry Clarke
Queens Who Cut the Bogs of Glanna, Judith of Scripture, and Glorianna, 1910. One of the Queens? Panels designed for the library of Laurence Waldrons library in Marino, Ballybrack, Killiney, Co

Drawings of Bernardo di Bandino Baroncelli hanged, and emblems, c1472-c1519 (1883). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Drawings of Bernardo di Bandino Baroncelli hanged, and emblems, c1472-c1519 (1883). Bernardo di Bandino Baroncelli was one of the Pazzi conspirators who tried to displace the de` Medicii family as

Michael O Laughlen, member of the Lincoln conspiracy, 1865 (1955). A former Confederate soldier, O Laughlen (1840-1867) was an old friend of John Wilkes Booth

Dr Samuel Mudd, member of the Lincoln conspiracy, 1865 (1955). Mudd (1833-1883) was arrested on suspicion of being an accomplice of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln

John Surratt, member of the Lincoln conspiracy, 1866 (1955)
John Surratt, member of the Lincoln conspiracy, 1865 (1955). Surratt (1844-1916), pictured here in Papal Zouave uniform, was involved in an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap US President Abraham Lincoln

Samuel Arnold, member of the Lincoln conspiracy, 1865(1955). Arnold (1834-1906) was involved in two unsuccessful attempts to kidnap US President Abraham Lincoln with the intention of holding him for

Edward Spangler, member of the Lincoln assassination plot, 1865 (1955). Spangler (1825-1875) worked at Fords Theatre in Washington DC at the time when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated there by John

George Atzerodt, member of the Lincoln assassination plot, 1865 (1955). Atzerodt (1835-1865) was one of four people hanged for their involvement in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham

Lewis Powell, member of the Lincoln assassination plot, 1865 (1955). Also known as Lewis Payne, Powell (1844-1865) was one of four people hanged for their involvement in the conspiracy to assassinate

The murder of Tsar Paul I of Russia, March 1801 (1882-1884). Paul I (1754-1801) became Emperor of Russia in 1796. He was determined to turn the Russian nobility, which he saw as decadent and corrupt

The Fifth of November 1611 (c1902). From Cassells Illustrated History of England, volume III (c1902)

The arrest of Guy Fawkes (1570-1606), c1902. From Cassells Illustrated History of England, volume III (c1902)

The loft used by the Cato Street Conspirators, London, 1820 (1878). The Cato Street Conspiracy was an attempt to murder all the British cabinet ministers and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool in 1820

The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators and their Servant Bates, (1605), 1901
The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators and their Servant Bates, 1605. Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plotters, 1605. Roman Catholic conspiracy to blow up English Houses of Parliament on 5 November 1605 when

The attempt to assassinate King Louis Philippe of France, Paris, 1835. On 28th July 1835 a Corsican ex-soldier named Giuseppe Marco Fieschi detonated a bomb in an attempt to kill Louis-Philippe while

Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, King Consort of Mary, Queen of Scots, (18th century). Artist: George Vertue
Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, King Consort of Mary, Queen of Scots, (18th century). Darnley (1545-1567), second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots

Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1807. Artist: Rivers
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, (1807). Darnley (1545-1567) was murdered at Kirk O Field near Edinburgh in February 1567

Examination of John F Egan at Birmingham police court, the dynamite plot, 1884
Examination of John F Egan at Birmingham police court, 1884. Court case involving the dynamite plot. Illustration from the The Graphic, (3 May 1884)

Countess de la Motte, late 18th century. In 1785, the Comtesse de La Motte was involved in the scandalous Affair of the Diamond Necklace at the court of Louis XVI. Engraved for the Ladys Magazine

Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, 17th century French churchman and agitatorArtist: A Migneret
Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, 17th century French churchman and agitator. The Cardinal de Retz (1614-1679) plotted against Cardinal Mazarin, Chief Minister of France

Letter from Henry Fielding to Hutton Perkins, 25th November 1750. Artist: Henry Fielding
Letter from Henry Fielding to Hutton Perkins, 25th November 1750. Letter, written from Bow Street in Fieldings capacity of police-magistrate

The Gunpowder Plotters, early 17th century, (1910). The conspirators, from a picture painted in 1606: Robert Winter, Christopher Wright, John Wright, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Catesby

The arrest of the Cato street conspirators, February 23, 1820, (1901). The discovery of a plot to assassinate the entire cabinet of Britains Parliament

Lord Henry Stewart Darnley, King Consort of Scotland, (1907). Darnley (1545-1567), second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered at Kirk O Field near Edinburgh in February 1567

Mission, Ureparapara, Torba Province, Vanuatu, 1885

The Explosive Device, 24 December, 1800, 19th century
The Explosive Device, 19th century. The portrayal of the attempted assassination of Napoleon while his coach passed the Rue Nicaise on December 24, 1800

Edward the Martyr, 10th century English king, c1860. Edward (Eadward), king from 975, being offered a poisoned drink by his stepmother Aelfthryth at her home at Corfe Castle, Dorset

Amboise Enterprise or Conspiracy, French Religious Wars, March 1560 (c1570). Artist: Jacques Tortorel
Amboise Enterprise or Conspiracy, French Religious Wars, March 1560 (c1570). The Amboise Enterprise was a Huguenot plot against the Catholic Guise faction, led by Jean du Barry

Execution of conspirators at Amboise, French Religious Wars, March 1560 (1570). Artist: Jacques Tortorel
Execution of conspirators at Amboise, French Religious Wars, March 1560 (1570). Execution by hanging or decapitation by the sword of conspirators in the Amboise Enterprise

The Hidden Hand, 1883. Artist: Joseph Swain
The hidden hand, 1883. This cartoon shows an Irish anarchist, armed with knife and pistol, surreptitiously accepting a bag of gold

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