"A magistrate sits behind his table listening intently to the angry harangue of a naval officer (right) who faces the accused (left), demure-looking, plainly-dressed woman, wearing a checked apron tucked round her waist, but evidently a prostitute. She is supported by two keen-looking lawyers. The officer, who is paunchy and wears very wide white trousers, stands with legs apart, right arm extended with pointing forefinger. He shouts: No. No. I've found my Breeches, but consider your Worship how I shall be Quized--The L--d H--h-A--l knows all about it. I never was before the Public but once, shant forget that in a hurry--Yes--yes I found the breeches, but where's my Silver Gilt Trafalgar Medal eh? I'll have it if it costs me a Thousand Pounds. I could'ent live without it. Ay Ay she's the Thief but I will not hang her unless your worship wishes it--If I had her aboard my Ship D--n me I'de give her a round dozen--I would. Behind him stand a footboy in livery and two rough-looking men. The woman extends both arms and says pathetically I never robbed you Sir. The lawyer says: There's no proof you cant Harm--her."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Sheet trimmed: 26 x 37 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827., and Numbered in manuscript at top of sheet: 71.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837.
Subject (Topic):
Aprons, Boys, Judges, Lawyers, Military officers, Prostitutes, and Servants
"A magistrate sits behind his table listening intently to the angry harangue of a naval officer (right) who faces the accused (left), demure-looking, plainly-dressed woman, wearing a checked apron tucked round her waist, but evidently a prostitute. She is supported by two keen-looking lawyers. The officer, who is paunchy and wears very wide white trousers, stands with legs apart, right arm extended with pointing forefinger. He shouts: No. No. I've found my Breeches, but consider your Worship how I shall be Quized--The L--d H--h-A--l knows all about it. I never was before the Public but once, shant forget that in a hurry--Yes--yes I found the breeches, but where's my Silver Gilt Trafalgar Medal eh? I'll have it if it costs me a Thousand Pounds. I could'ent live without it. Ay Ay she's the Thief but I will not hang her unless your worship wishes it--If I had her aboard my Ship D--n me I'de give her a round dozen--I would. Behind him stand a footboy in livery and two rough-looking men. The woman extends both arms and says pathetically I never robbed you Sir. The lawyer says: There's no proof you cant Harm--her."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837.
Subject (Topic):
Aprons, Boys, Judges, Lawyers, Military officers, Prostitutes, and Servants
"A fight between Lyndhurst and Peel with Ellenborough and Wellington as bottle-holders. Lyndhurst (left), in Chancellor's wig and gown, staggers back, arms flung out, at a punch on the nose from Peel who lunges forward, ruthlessly pugnacious. Ellenborough, dressed and behaving as a dandy (in tight-waisted blue coat and white bell-shaped trousers), holding a tubular eau-de-cologne bottle, emblem of the dandy, cf. BM Satires No. 13031, registers alarm, exclaiming, 'Oh! Oh! my dear Lud, take care--he's a terrible hitter--or he'll have your Ludship's dear head in Chancery.' Wellington (right), in uniform with sword, gauntlets, and heavily spurred cavalry boots, says: 'That's it Bob; serve him out--He won't ride rusty after this I know.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., A. Sharpshooter tentatively identified as John Phillips. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Watermark: J. Whatman 1928., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 178.
Publisher:
Pub. by J. Field, 65 Regents Quadrant
Subject (Name):
Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, Judges, Military uniforms, and Wigs
"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
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
March 26th, 1831.
Call Number:
831.03.26.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on the electoral Reform Bill of 1831, which was passed soon after this print was issued. Grant shows the figure of blind Justice leaning out from a mass of billowing clouds and holding her scales labelled "Reform 1813". The load on the left side labeled "People', though containing fewer documents -- Magna Carta, Economy & Retrenchment, Peace of Plenty, Extension of the Electi[c] Franchise, Cheap Government -- is heavier than the other plate "Oligarchy" which is weighted down by: Bribes, Corruption, Six Acts, Corn Law, Church, Rotten Boroughs, Corporation Charters, Law & Iniquity, Taxes, Imposts, Holy Alliance, [F?]onal Debt. A group of four men in the left foreground include a judge; the one man says "Behold! a mere feather turns the ballance in our favour and saves us from revolution & disgrace." Just beyond them in the middle distance the King stands firmly and says "The triumph of this great & vital cause will fix my crown more firm upon my head." On the right a group of over six men including a clergyman who wipes his brow and cries "The draft is in their favor. Our cause is lost. Oh dictatorium, dictatorium, dic-". Another gentleman behind him cries "They may vainly recken on a paltry unit, we have yet power to rent it peicemeal [sic]." In the distance a crowd cheers, and some hold signs for "Reform" and "Support the King & his ministers", etc
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Politics and government, Cabinet officers, Clergy, Crowds, Demonstrations, Judges, Justice, and Scales
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull sitting in the Supreme Judge's place and judging four well-known politicians begging for a second trial."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "76" in brown ink in lower left corner of design., and No. 76.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Pleading (Begging), Judicial proceedings, and Judges
A copy of the caricature of the British Statesman and High Lord Chancellor Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), that appeared in the center of an print that was published on 1 October 1834 in Every body's album & caricature magazine, no. 19. He is depicted as a very thin traveller wearing a Scottish tam over his wig and using a broom as a walking stick; his shoe is worn through. He carries a wooden post labelled "Scratching post", a box stamped "Containing the freedoms of all the Scotch towns" and a bag with the words "Broken victuals the leavings of the Edinburgh blow out". Around his waist is another bag, "Oat meal". Above the image framed in lines in gold ink: “I flatter myself I've made a tolerable good job by my “Starring it” with Old Grey in the North! Sold all my numbers of the Penny Magazine, and well puff'd it through every town I went. Made little less than one hundred speeches about, I forget now, Received some score of Burgesses, Freedoms, and Invitations to as many dinners, where I blew my own trumpet & obtained plenty of orders from our Usefull Knowledge Society! Now, woe to the unstamn'd when I get home! I must have a good scrub at my skin presently; I reckon I have got a taste of the fiddle through my itch for travelling!
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Drawn after a print by C.J. Grant, published ca. 1833 by G. Drake as No. 56 in The political drama series; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.11156. A nearly identical image also appears among several designs in Every body's album & caricature magazine, No. 19 (1 October 1834); see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 834.10.01.01+., and Additional text written within speech box above image: I flatter myself I've made a tolerable good job ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Government officials, and Judges
Title supplied by cataloger., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842 ed.)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leaf 46. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1819, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 819.00.00.44., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 46 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Title supplied by cataloger., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., Numbered '129' in lower right of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.