Gunpowder Plot, Monteagle Letter - Engraved Facsimile - 1829
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Gunpowder Plot, Monteagle Letter - Engraved Facsimile - 1829

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Engraved facsimile of the anonymous letter that in October 1605 warned Lord Monteagle not to attend Parliament and that led to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot. It reproduces the hand of the original and, below, the address to "the right honorable the Lord Mounteagle".

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Engraved facsimile of the anonymous letter that in October 1605 warned Lord Monteagle not to attend Parliament and that led to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot. It reproduces the hand of the original and, below, the address to "the right honorable the Lord Mounteagle".

It comes from Edward Wedlake Brayley's Londiniana, published in London by Hurst, Chance & Co. in 1829, as the heading and the imprint of the sheet itself indicate.

Medium: Copper engraving (facsimile).
Date: 1829.
Source: E. W. Brayley, Londiniana (London, Hurst, Chance & Co., 1829).
Dimensions: 7 x 8.5 in (17.8 x 21.7 cm).
Condition: Central vertical fold and wear with small tears in the right margin; paper toned.

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