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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 May 1790]
- Call Number:
- Print00297
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young woman stands upon a high stool, her skirts raised to show her posteriors to three men (half length) behind her. She bends forward, pointing to Charles Fox who stands with his hands handcuffed in a booth or box behind a bar. Fox has an enormous head and an expression of terrified dismay at the denunciation. Behind him is a man in profile holding a constable's staff. The three men are evidently Bow Street Justices (Sir Sampson Wright, Addington, and Bond); the principal magistrate (Wright) wears a hat and spectacles and is much caricatured (cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 6119-21). Above their heads are the evenly balanced scales of Justice. In front of the woman stands a clerk (half length) meditatively biting his pen."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Scene in Bow Street
- Description:
- Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Bond -- Crime., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 247 x 351 mm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 20th, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Addington, William, Sir, -1811, Wright, Sampson, Sir, -1793, and Williams, Renwick.
- Subject (Topic):
- Stools, Judges, Handcuffs, Scales, and Clerks
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Swearing to the cutting monster, or, A scene in Bow Street [graphic].
