Assassination attempt against Queen Victoria, Constitution Hill, Westminster, London, 1840. Artist: JR Jobbins

Assassination attempt against Queen Victoria, Constitution Hill, Westminster, London, 1840. Artist: JR Jobbins

1-646-092 - The London Archives (City of London)/Heritage Images

Assassination attempt against Queen Victoria, Constitution Hill, Westminster, London, 1840. Scene of Edward Oxford's attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on the evening of Wednesday 10th June, 1840. Oxford was tried for high treason but acquitted on grounds of insanity. He was sent to Bethlem Hospital, where he remained until 1864, when the criminal patients were transferred to Broadmoor. In 1867 he was released on condition that the leave the country, and spent the remaining years of his life in Australia.


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People Information

Creator
  1. JR Jobbins, attributed to: (British?): Architect, (designer?)
After
  1. Ebenezer Landells: British: Artist, printmaker, wood-engraver, illustrator, magazine proprietor
Subject
  1. Queen Victoria: British: Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, artist, Empress of India
  2. Prince Albert: German: Prince Consort
  3. Edward Oxford: British:

Medium
  1. Lithograph

Geographic Hierarchy

World Europe United Kingdom England Greater London London City of Westminster Westminster

  1. 51 29 09 N , 000 08 01 W

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Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3210x2250
File Size : 21,160kb


Aliases

  1. 20962
  1. v8485528
  1. 0220006195
  1. 1-646-092
  1. 1646092
  1. 20962

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