Bambridge on trial for murder by a committee of the House of Commons [graphic]

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Title: Bambridge on trial for murder by a committee of the House of Commons [graphic]
Creator: Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1 June 1803]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published June 1st, 1803 by G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London
Abstract: "Interior of the Fleet Prison with the House of Commons committee appointed to enquire into the state of gaols (after Hogarth's painting of c.1729 in the National Portrait Gallery); to left, James Oglethorpe, Chairman of the Committee, confronts the warden of the Fleet, Thomas Bambridge; in the foreground, a prisoner (probably Jacob Mendes da Sola) kneels in shackles."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Provenance: Found loose in Kinnaird Collection; 1959.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 45 cm x 56 cm, on sheet 48 cm x 63 cm
Language: English

Genre: Group portraits
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1803
Material: engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Oglethorpe, James, 1696-1785,
Bambridge, Thomas, active 1729.
Subject (Topic): Blacks
Trials, litigation, etc
Subjects: Oglethorpe, James, 1696-1785
Bambridge, Thomas, active 1729
Blacks
Trials, litigation, etc
England > London > 1803

Access: Public
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