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The Massacre of Peterloo or Britons Strike Home   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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George Cruikshank  (1792–1878)  wikidata:Q360466 s:en:Author:George Cruikshank
 
George Cruikshank
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George Cruickshank; George, I Cruikshank; George, I Cruickshank; Cruickshank; george cruikshank; cruikshank
Description British caricaturist, artist, illustrator and photographer
Date of birth/death 27 September 1792 Edit this at Wikidata 1 February 1878 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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creator QS:P170,Q360466
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The Massacre of Peterloo or Britons Strike Home
title QS:P1476,en:"The Massacre of Peterloo or Britons Strike Home"
label QS:Len,"The Massacre of Peterloo or Britons Strike Home"
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representing the charge of the Manchester Yeomanry on the unarmed populace in St. Peter's Fields, Manchester. The yeomanry are depicted as butchers armed with axes reeking with the blood of the victims.

— Traill, Henry Duff (ed.), in: [1]
Date 1819[1]
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Speech balloon top left:

Down with 'em! Chop em down my brave boys: give them no quarter they want to take our Beef & Pudding from us! ---- & remember the more you kill the less poor rates you'll have to pay so go at it Lads show your courage & your Loyalty
References
  1. a b Traill, Henry Duff (ed); Mann, James Saumarez (ed) (1904) [June 1897] "Notes to Illustrations" in Social England: a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day (Illustrated Edition ed.), London: Cassell and Company, pp. p. xiv Retrieved on 7 April 2010.
Source/Photographer Symes, John Elliotson; Traill, Henry Duff (ed); Mann, James Saumarez (ed) (1904) [June 1897] "The Social Economy" in Social England: a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day (Illustrated Edition ed.), London: Cassell and Company, pp. facing p. 126 Retrieved on 7 April 2010.
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