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- Creator:
- Huestis, C. P. (Charles P.), artist
- Published / Created:
- [1856?]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Two illustrations, with accompanying text, showing the shooting of James King of William in San Francisco, California and the surrender of James P. Casey and Charles Cora
- Description:
- Description based on imperfect Beinecke Library copy, consisting of only the first of two sheets described by Baird., Title from captions below images., and Second illustration, "Surrender of Jas. P. Casey and Charles Cora," signed in lower right "Huestis."
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- California and San Francisco
- Subject (Name):
- King, James, 1822-1856, Casey, James P., Cora, Charles., and San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial, Assassination, and Arrest
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Assassination of James King of William ; Surrender of Jas. P. Casey and Charles Cora to the Vigilance Committee, on Sunday, May 18th, 1856
3.
- Published / Created:
- 1824.
- Call Number:
- 824.00.00.63
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 22 x 17 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published by J. Robins & Co., Albion Press, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Ireland and Dublin.
- Subject (Name):
- Kilwarden, Arthur Wolfe, Viscount, 1739-1803
- Subject (Topic):
- Assassination, Assassinations, Judges, History, and Historical reenactments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Assassination of Lord Kilwarden in Dublin [graphic].
4.
- Published / Created:
- ©1856.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Two portraits, one in life, one after death. and "Entered ... in the year 1856, by James M. Hutchings ..."
- Publisher:
- J.M. Hutchings?
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, San Francisco., and California.
- Subject (Name):
- King, James, 1822-1856 and King, James, 1822-1856.
- Subject (Topic):
- Letterheads, Executions and executioners, and Assassination
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James King of William the patriot martyr of California : editor of the San Francisco evening bulletin, who was murderously assassinated by James P. Casey, May 14th, 1856 : portrait of Mr. King after death, showing the entrance and exit of the fatal ball. [print]
5.
- Published / Created:
- [1812]
- Call Number:
- 812.05.00.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- imagea and text
- Description:
- Caption title., With an etching below the title and above the letterpress text, signed "G. Cruikshank fect." showing John Bellingham in the act of assassinating Spencer Perceval. Plate mark: 58 x 104 mm., and Mounted to: 46 x 17 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published by John Fairburn, 2, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill, facing the Old Bailey and Maurice Printer, Howford-buildings, Fenchurch-Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812., Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, and Bellingham, John, 1770-1812
- Subject (Topic):
- Assassination, Prime ministers, Politics and government, and Assassinations
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Monumental inscription on the departed minister!! : within this mausoleum lie entombed the mortal remains of Spencer Perceval ...
6.
- Creator:
- Stow, James, approximately 1770- printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Decr. 1793.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 812 B68
- Collection Title:
- Plate [35] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; the assasination of Thomas Becket, wrestled to his knees by a gang of four knights, one raising a bludgeon above him, his mitre and staff fallen at left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [35] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published by R. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery
- Subject (Name):
- Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170, and Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170
- Subject (Topic):
- Assassination and Assassinations
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The death of Beckett [graphic]
7.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 July 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.07.29.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene of the crowded interior of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the trial of Charlotte Corday for the murder of Jean Marat. Corday stands at the bar, her wrists in chains, as she confronts the three judges, grotesque figures -- a barber, a tailor, and a butcher. Marat's body lies between them on a wooden bedstead, his blood stained shirt on a pike
- Description:
- Title etched above image., One line of quoted text below title: "The noble enthusiasm with which this woman met the charge, & the elevated disdain with which she treated the self created tribunal, struck the whole assembly with terror & astonishment.", and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. July 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and France.
- Subject (Name):
- Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793, Corday, Charlotte, 1768-1793, and France. Tribunal révolutionnaire.
- Subject (Topic):
- Assassination, History, and Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The heroic Charlotte la Cordé upon her trial at the bar of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris, July 17th, 1793 for having rid the world of that monster of atheism and murder the regicide Marat, whom she stabbed in a bath where he had retired on account of a leprosy with which Heaven had begun the punishment of his crimes / [graphic]
