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1. The trial of the D. of C. and Lady G-r for crim. con. [graphic].
- 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].
