- Title Information
- Title
- Attempt to Assassinate [sic] the King
- Subtitle
- On the second of August 1786 Margaret Nicholson under the pretence of presenting a Petition, attempted to stab his Majesty as he was alighting from his Chariot at the garden entrance to St. James's Palace, near Marlborough Wall, but was happily prevented by Mr. Topper one of the King's footmen and an attendant Yeoman by whom she was secured. At the same time the Sovereign with great coolness & humanity said "I have received no injury - Don't hurt the Woman - The poor Creature appears to be insane." After several examinations no doubt of her insanity remaining she was sent to Bethlem Hospital.
- Non Sort
- The
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Smirke, Robert
- Name Part:
Date
- 1752-1845
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- artist
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Jukes, Francis
- Name Part:
Date
- 1745-1812
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- engraver
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Pollard, Robert
- Name Part:
Date
- 1755-1838
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- publisher
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Country Code)
- enk
- Place Term:
Text
- London
- Publisher
- R. Pollard
- Date Issued
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 1786
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 aquatint; 71.9 x 56.1 cm.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Hand-colored aquatint by Pollard after Smirke; George III alighting from carriage, approached by knife-wielding woman, Margaret Nicolson, Mr. Topper, the footman and Yeoman of the Guard intervening, others at right.
- Note
- "On the second of August 1786 Margaret Nicholson under the pretence of presenting a Petition, attempted to stab His Majesty as he was alighting from his Chariot at the garden entrance to St. James's Palace..."
- Note:
provenance
- London, Parker Gallery, 1960.
- Subject
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- George III
- Name Part:
Date
- 1738-1820
- Name Part:
Terms of Address
- King of Great Britain
- Topic
- Assassination attempts
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
- Identifier:
COLID
- 13
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/askb
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="ASK Brown Call No.")
- GB-P 1786 lf-1
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1251402204859375
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300041366")
- aquatints (prints)
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.