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Barnaby Rudge Helping Lead the Gordon Riots
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
initialed and dated, in brown ink, at lower right: CG / 1884
Provenance
?-?: William Lockwood, Nottingham 1979: (Ramiel M. Howitt, London) after 1979-2013: Helen and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 2013-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Charles Green (British, 1840–1898)
- Date
- 1884
- Medium
- watercolor with traces of graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.4 x 17.6 cm (10 x 6 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz
- Accession no.
- 2013.238
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011154
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