Horrida Bella! Pains and penalties versus truth and justice [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Horrida Bella! Pains and penalties versus truth and justice [graphic].
- Alternative Title
- Queen's alphabet
- Creator
- Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, G. 1773-1831?, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1820]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- G. Humphrey
- Abstract
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"Four barristers fight, all having oval shields and using rolled documents as weapons. Brougham, armed with 'Truth', and Denman with 'Justice', vanquish Gifford and Copley (Attorney-and Solicitor-General), one with a shield inscribed 'Pains' and a document inscribed 'Filth', the other with a shield inscribed 'Penalties' and a document inscribed 'Lies'. Below: 'Broomo's and Denny's judgmatical fire, Laid Giffo, with Coppo and Co. in the mire.'"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description
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Title engraved above image; alternative title engraved at top of plate: The Queen's alphabet.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue.
Variant state, with differences in engraved text above image, of no. 13948 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Publisher and date of publication from description of variant state in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
Frontispiece to: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820.
Quoted text below title: "Arma virumque cano".
Mounted on page 8 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Mounted with eight sheets of letterpress text, for letters A-H, meant to face the corresponding plates in bound copies of Horrida bella. - Provenance
- Purchased from Andrew Edmunds; September 2014.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 17.2 x 12 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Page 8. George Humphrey shop album.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Humphrey, G., 1773-1831?, collector.
- Collection Date
- [London], [not after 1821]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Trials, litigation, etc
Caricatures and cartoons
Illustrations
Frontispieces
Satires (Visual works) England 1820
Etchings England London 1820 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854
Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826
Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863
Rosco. - Subject (Topic)
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Lawyers
Shields
Fighting - Subjects
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Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Trials, litigation, etc
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868 > Caricatures and cartoons
Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854 > Caricatures and cartoons
Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826 > Caricatures and cartoons
Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863 > Caricatures and cartoons
Rosco > Illustrations
Lawyers
Shields
Fighting
England > 1820
England > London > 1820
Humphrey, G. (George), 1773-1831? > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13854493
- Object ID (OID)
- 16816916
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