Horrida Bella! Pains and penalties versus truth and justice [graphic].Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker[1820]eng"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 stateTitle 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.