The Fenian Guy Fawkes Product:Canvas 15th January 1987

15th January 1987

The fortress was built for a firework display to celebrate peace in 1814

On the right is a shop selling music rolls for piano players

It incorporates a view of Crown Life Assurance Company's premises and a small plan of the surrounding area

The Fenian Guy Fawkes Product:Canvas 15th January 1987'The Fenian Guy Fawkes', 1867. In the middle of a crowd of children, with a mother feeding her baby in the background, a suitably simian Fenian sits astride a barrel of gunpowder and has just lit the fuse. In mid December 1867 two Fenian prisoners were being held at Clerkenwell. This was a working class area with a large residential population. Fellow Fenians attempted to blow open the wall of the House of Detention in an effort to rescue the two men.