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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 July 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.07.29.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene of the crowded interior of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the trial of Charlotte Corday for the murder of Jean Marat. Corday stands at the bar, her wrists in chains, as she confronts the three judges, grotesque figures -- a barber, a tailor, and a butcher. Marat's body lies between them on a wooden bedstead, his blood stained shirt on a pike
- Description:
- Title etched above image., One line of quoted text below title: "The noble enthusiasm with which this woman met the charge, & the elevated disdain with which she treated the self created tribunal, struck the whole assembly with terror & astonishment.", and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. July 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and France.
- Subject (Name):
- Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793, Corday, Charlotte, 1768-1793, and France. Tribunal révolutionnaire.
- Subject (Topic):
- Assassination, History, and Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The heroic Charlotte la Cordé upon her trial at the bar of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris, July 17th, 1793 for having rid the world of that monster of atheism and murder the regicide Marat, whom she stabbed in a bath where he had retired on account of a leprosy with which Heaven had begun the punishment of his crimes / [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [1770]
- Call Number:
- 770.00.00.46
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A judge on a raised seat, plaintiff and defendants, witnesses or spectators stand below, surrounding a rectangular barrier within which is a table, at which a clerk is writing. Four counsel stand within the barrier, two to the right. of the judge, two to his left. The Judge (Mansfield) sits, his left forefinger raised, listening with a stern expression to the remarks addressed to him. In the centre, in back view, stands Lord Grosvenor, wearing a tie-wig with horns, to which he points, saying: "I only want to know for a Certainty whether I am entitled to this Head Dress". On the left in profile to the right. stand Lady Grosvenor, holding out a fan, and Cumberland. She says: "My case shall be laid before this Court, and I can have nothing to fear from an Upright Judge"; he says: "I can do no Wrong". Behind him on the extreme left is a woman wearing a hood and holding a fan. She says: "It was a Pity to disturb them when they were going to Prince Making". One of the counsel on the Judge's right says: "If her L-----d, has not bedded with her these two years She cannot be with Child, but she may be with Prince". The two counsel on the other side say: "The Lady acted upon Revolution Principles She is strongly attached to the Present Family, and, There is no actual Proof of Adultery." A man in back view says: "The Youth wanted a Sop in Pan." A cook, on the extreme right, says, laughing: "How his------R------y [sic] H---n---ss will be Roasted and Basted."--Brit. Mus. online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Trial of the Duke of Cumberland and Lady Grosvenor for criminal conversation
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication date based on the date of the trial., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 33 x 47 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790, Grosvenor, Henrietta Grosvenor, Countess, -1828, Grosvenor, Richard Grosvenor, Earl, 1731-1802, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
- Subject (Topic):
- Trials (Adultery), Adultery, and Courtrooms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The trial of the D. of C. and Lady G-r for crim. con. [graphic].