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The Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot
Painting by Henry Perronet Briggs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot (or The Taking of Guy Fawkes) is an 1823 history painting by the British artist Henry Perronet Briggs.[1] It portrays the moment that 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament was unmasked. One of the plotters Guy Fawkes is being arrested by Sir Thomas Knevet and Edmund Doubleday.
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1823 at Somerset House in London.[2] Today it is in the collection of the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, having been donated by Viscount Ridley in 1908.[3]
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