"Bowes, apparently very ill, is helped into court by two men who hold him by the arms. On the right., above the level of the court, the two judges, Ashurst (left) and Buller (right), look down at him. Beneath them stands the Clerk of Arraigns, in legal wig and gown, reading from a large document inscribed 'Articles of Charges'. The men holding Bowes wear riding-boots and long coats and hold cudgels; they appear to be two of the Bow Street Officers, McManus and others, who pursued Bowes with a writ and brought him back to London. Behind and on the right of Bowes is a crowd of spectators. The most prominent is a lady with her hands in a muff, her breasts immodestly exposed, with a maid or attendant who holds her arm, evidently Lady Strathmore and her maid Morgan."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Law & lawyers -- Kings Bench -- Divorce court -- Judges., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1801.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 2d, 1786, by E. Jackson, Marybone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Bowes, Andrew Robinson Stoney, 1747-1810, Ashhurst, William Henry, Sir, 1725-1807, Buller, Francis, 1746-1800, and Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800
Judge Buller of King's Bench, is shown walking towards the right in his judicial robes, carrying two bundles of sticks, each terminating in the shape of a thumb. To the rear and on a smaller scale is a man beating his wife with one of the judge's implements. Buller was reputed to have ruled that a wife could legitimately be beaten provided the stick used by her husband was no thicker than his thumb
Alternative Title:
Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawful
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 27th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Judge Buller of King's Bench, is shown walking towards the right in his judicial robes, carrying two bundles of sticks, each terminating in the shape of a thumb. To the rear and on a smaller scale is a man beating his wife with one of the judge's implements. Buller was reputed to have ruled that a wife could legitimately be beaten provided the stick used by her husband was no thicker than his thumb
Alternative Title:
Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawful!
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Originally published with the imprint: Pubd. Novr. 27th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Sticks: fascines -- Laws: wife-beating ruled lawful., 1 print on wove paper : etching ; sheet 34 x 25 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted to 56 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 27th, 1782, by W. Humphry [sic], No. 227 Strand
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawfull!
Description:
Title etched below image., Date assigned by cataloger., A reduced copy of a print with the same title that was etched by Gillray and published 27 November 1782. Cf. No. 6123 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate numbered "133" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 94 in volume 2.
