"A court scene. The judge, Bayley (right), addresses the apprehensive prisoner at the bar, Wellington (left): '"If a party, wilfully & intentionally does an act likely in its results to produce death, & death actually ensues, the act so done by him is done with what the Law calls "malice afore thought" & the party is guilty of murder!"' The jury, in a raised box, Counsel seated in the well of the court, and a shorthand-writer standing on the extreme left, stare at judge or prisoner. The heads of spectators fill the space under the jury-box."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Print signed using John Doyle's "HB" monogram., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., Text below title: A supposed case, founded on facts., A commentary on a recent trial of R.W. Lambrecht who was tried for manslaughter as a result of a duel, with Wellington appearing in the dock, alluding to an event in which Wellington himself went through the motions of a duel the previous year., and Matted to 41 x 53 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 and Bayley, John, 1763-1841
Subject (Topic):
Dueling, Courtrooms, Judges, Juries, and Spectators
A watercolor drawing of a scene in Westminster Hall with three judges presiding over a crowded courtroom
Alternative Title:
Lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall and Peep into the Court of Kings Bench
Description:
Title "A peep into the Court of Kings Bench" written in lower margin but scored through; a new title "Term time or The lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall" is written below in the same hand., Signed by the artist in lower right corner of image., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., and Numbered "557" beneath lower left corner of image.
Subject (Name):
Westminster Hall (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Courtrooms, Judicial proceedings, Lawyers, Judges, and Juries
Includes Gardelle's account of his murder of Anne King and a description of his attempts at suicide after he was apprehended., Two woodcuts show Gardelle in his prison cell with visitors and the courtroom as the jury announces its verdict., and Not in ESTC.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of plate number and placing instructions., "Plate no. 18.", Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Old Bailey -- Symbols: figure of Justice.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Judges, Juries, Lawyers, Spectators, and Witnesses
