Title

Cato Street conspiracy, 1820. Artist: Anon

Caption

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. Attached to this is the portrait of Richard Smithers, an arresting officer of the Bow Street Runners, who was killed by the ringleader Arthur Thistlewood.

Date

1820

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Reference

HRM19A98_335

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

18,5Mb (827,2Kb) / 6,6in x 10,9in / 1985 x 3255 (300dpi)

Keywords

portrait road building buildings London England people male interior indoors job man men street country farm law guy crime occupation British English color colour lane avenue policeman location century Britain profession inside ladder murder slaughter killed murdered plot 19th century HIDEOUT police force hayloft nineteenth century Marylebone City of Westminster Guildhall Library & Art Gallery Cato Street Conspiracy murdering slaughtering TGN Richard Smithers Bow Street Runners Cato Street etching Anon Anonymous George Cruikshank;Cruikshank George Richard Arthur Smithers Arthur Thistlewood Thistlewood