Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: London: St. James's Palace -- Assaults -- Vehicles: prison carts -- Gibbets -- Executions: hanging -- Trials: Renwick Williams's trials -- Dock of Old Bailey -- Ann Porter, fl. 1790., and Watermark: armorial shield with fleur-de-lis above and monogram W below.
"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.
"Williams stands in the dock in profile to the right, his hands resting on a desk or board on which are writing materials and sprays of foliage. He resembles British Museum satire no. 7731, but is less good-looking. In front is the panelled side of the dock surmounted by spikes. In the background (left) behind the dock a man stands or sits full face, with head bent down."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed JN [monogram] in lower right corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Monsters: 'The Monster,' Renwick Williams -- Dock of Old Bailey.
Publisher:
Publish'd 9 July, 1790, by E. Harding, Fleet Street, according to act of Parliament
"Half length portrait of a good-looking man, dressed in the fashion of the day, standing in profile to the right."--British Museum online catalogue and "Renwick Williams, who had been identified on 13 June as the mysterious Monster, see BMSat 7648, &c, was examined at Bow Street on 14 June, &c., and was tried at the Old Bailey on 7 July 1790. He was found guilty but judgement was respited till December. This portrait is evidently based on a sketch made at the trial, see BMSat 7730."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Description:
Title etched below image., Formerly attributed to Gillray. See British Museum online catalogue., Published probably by John Wallis, whose shop was located at this address from 1775-1808. See Maxted, I. London book trades 1775-1800., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title from item., Attribution to Cruikshank from British Museum catalogue., Two images on one plate., Publisher's announcement following imprint: Where may be seen the compleatest [sic] collection of caracatures [sic] in the kingdom. Admit. 1 s., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Pall Mall -- Reference to John Julius Angerstein, 1735-1823 -- Brazier's shop -- Female costume: copper petticoat -- Monsters: 'The monster', Renwick Williams, fl. 1790 -- Male costume, 1790 -- Female costume, 1790., and Watermark: armorial shield with fleur-de-lis above and initials L V G below.
