Cleveland Museum of Art

Barnaby Rudge Helping Lead the Gordon Riots

Charles Green

Date

1884

Medium

watercolor with traces of graphite

Culture

England, 19th century

Department

Drawings

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Charles Green was one of the most successful black-and-white illustrators in Victorian England, known especially for his images related to the novels of Charles Dickens. The subject of this drawing relates to the writer's historical novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty , based on the Gordon Riots. Here, Green depicted participants in an anti-Catholic protest against the Papists' Act of 1778, the most violent outpouring of religious hatred in 18th-century Britain. This drawing was never published as an illustration, but the character of Barnaby appeared in Charles Green's design for a title page for an edition of Dickens's collected works.

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