A judge sits in a chair (left) looking at sailor who stands hat in hand before him. He says, "Are you certain, in respect to your being sober at the time the circumstance happened." The sailor with caricatured features and warts on his face, replies: "Sober. Come I like that, may I never again weigh anchor if I would not call him a lubber be he who he would, that would say I was drunk, please your grave and reverend worship. I had only shipp'd in eight grogs and a gill not enough to make a lawyer merry, in short your honor, I'll be d-nd if I was not as sober as a judge."
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.673., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermarked "Ivy Mill 1820".
Publisher:
Pubd. by Roberts, Middle-Row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Drunkenness (Crime), Law and legislation, Judges, Sailors, and British
"The Queen, crowned, in royal robes and with a sceptre in her left hand, sits regally in the Coronation Chair. Justice, blindfolded and menacing, stands at her right hand; Truth, irradiated and holding up her mirror so that its rays illuminate the Queen, is on her left hand. A stone slab supporting the throne rests on eight hydra-heads with serpents' masks. The centre head is that of Eldon, with two other judges, one with a leech on the cheek indicating Leach (see British Museum Satires No. 13740). Castlereagh, very Mephistophelian, is on the extreme left, Sidmouth and Liverpool on the right; there are two unidentified heads, one presumably Harrowby. Round Queen, chair, &c. are clouds. In the upper left corner, two demons, spitting and excreting thunderbolts, carry off the King 'To Hanover'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumph of innocence over perjury, persecution and ministerial oppression
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 40 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 6, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Leach, John, 1760-1834, and Harrowby, Dudley Ryder, Earl of, 1762-1847
"The Queen, crowned, in royal robes and with a sceptre in her left hand, sits regally in the Coronation Chair. Justice, blindfolded and menacing, stands at her right hand; Truth, irradiated and holding up her mirror so that its rays illuminate the Queen, is on her left hand. A stone slab supporting the throne rests on eight hydra-heads with serpents' masks. The centre head is that of Eldon, with two other judges, one with a leech on the cheek indicating Leach (see British Museum Satires No. 13740). Castlereagh, very Mephistophelian, is on the extreme left, Sidmouth and Liverpool on the right; there are two unidentified heads, one presumably Harrowby. Round Queen, chair, &c. are clouds. In the upper left corner, two demons, spitting and excreting thunderbolts, carry off the King 'To Hanover'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumph of innocence over perjury, persecution and ministerial oppression
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching ; sheet 33.3 x 22.4 cm., Printed on laid paper with watermark; hand-colored., Window mounted to 34.9 x 24.1 cm, the whole then mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 11 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Londondery [sic]," "Leach," "Eldon," "Sidmouth," and "Liverpool" identified in ink below image; date "6 Nov. 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of ten lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 6, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Leach, John, 1760-1834, and Harrowby, Dudley Ryder, Earl of, 1762-1847
"Judges, lawyers, and others rush headlong from Westminster Hall. Three women are among the crowd, one of whom has fallen on her back. In the background is a Gothic doorway, on each side of which are two windows; through the upper left window appears a maidservant with a mop. Beneath the title is printed: 'Or, Courts of Law without a Covering, and Lawyers' Fears without Foundation; 'Causes without an Issue, and an Issue without a Cause'. This is followed by two quotations from Virgil, below which are verses printed in five columns"--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Caption title from letterpress printed below image., Title followed by two quotations from Virgil., Plate mark cannot be determined., Plate is early state, before alterations., Five columns of verse below the title: God prosper long our noble King ... However strange, 'tis strictly true, That thus a simple Wench, Did - (what no other Power could do) - Drive Mansfield from the Bench!'., Publication statement etched in plate below image: Published as the act directs, 28th Aprl. 1785, by Woodman & Mutlow, No. 30 Russel Court, Covent Garden., and Temporary local subject terms: Westminster Hall: exterior court of the King's Bench -- Courts -- Panic -- Maidservants -- Literature: quotations from Virgil, 70-19 BC. -- Incidents: panic at the King's Bench, April 22, 1785 -- Legal costume -- Allusion to Charles Hughes, fl. 1785 -- Allusion to Philip Astley, 1742-1814.
Publisher:
Printed for Woodman & Mutlow, engravers and print-sellers, Russel Court, Covent-Garden, and A. Wells, Warwick-Place, Bedford Row
Title from item., The blindfolded judge may represent Sir John Fielding., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Judges -- Justice blindfolded -- Male dress: legal dress.
Publisher:
Publish'd December 15, 1772, by W. Darling in Great Newport Street
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 52 Box D305
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A prisoner (the foreman) bound in chains and 'Thimble' stand before two justices, writing furiously in open volumes, and respond to the exclamation "You're upon oath Sir!"
Description:
Title from pencil inscription in the artist's hand below image. and Date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Judges, Courtrooms, Judicial proceedings, and Prisoners
Print showing George IV being carried in a sedan chair by two men wearing judicial wigs and robes, one carries a sceptor; on the top of the chair sits Queen Caroline holding a noise maker, she tells the porters to "Keep joging, I'le be your Pilot, don't fear his Wakeing - I have Composed his Highness, I warrant you." George IV pours out the contents of a bottle labeled "opium" and on the ground next to the chair is a broken bottle also labeled "opium." and "Political satire: the Prince Regent carried in a chair by two judges, with Mrs Fitzherbert on the roof with two babies, followed by the cabinet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price one shilling coloured"--Lower right corner of image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Imperfect; selected text erased from sheet, including publication date and some dialogue within speech bubble in upper right.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aprl. 24, 1812, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830,, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., and Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Sedan chairs, Mistresses, Judges, Scepters, Wigs, Bottles, Opium, Cupids, Infants, and Bagpipes
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1786); half-length seated facing front wearing long wig and chain over robe with fur collar; curtain and pillars behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., and Bound in opposite page 260 (leaf numbered '75' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published June 27, 1812, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
In a shabby room in Drury Lane; Moll Hackabout is shown having risen late (the watch shows 11:45), attended by a serving-woman who has lost part of her nose to syphilis; in the background, the magistrate, John Gonson, enters quietly with officers to arrest her; pinned to the window frame are prints of Captain Mackheath (the hero of "The Beggar's Opera") and Dr Sacheverell (the High Anglican clergyman impeached in 1710), the wig-box of James Dalton, highwayman, sits above the bed, and one of several beer tankards on the floor carries the name of a Drury Lane tavern. A kitten plays at Moll's feet. A copy of Bishop Gibson's "Pastoral Letter to ..." serves as a butter dish. Above the window on the left is a print after a Titian painting depicting the angel staying the hand of Abraham as he is about to slay Isaac. Medicine bottles on the window sill suggest that Molly is already ill with the disease that will later kill her
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson., State before black Latin cross added. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate 3"--Lower left corner., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 32 x 38.8 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 4 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
In a shabby room in Drury Lane; Moll Hackabout is shown having risen late (the watch shows 11:45), attended by a serving-woman who has lost part of her nose to syphilis; in the background, the magistrate, John Gonson, enters quietly with officers to arrest her; pinned to the window frame are prints of Captain Mackheath (the hero of "The Beggar's Opera") and Dr Sacheverell (the High Anglican clergyman impeached in 1710), the wig-box of James Dalton, highwayman, sits above the bed, and one of several beer tankards on the floor carries the name of a Drury Lane tavern. A kitten plays at Moll's feet. A copy of Bishop Gibson's "Pastoral Letter to ..." serves as a butter dish. Above the window on the left is a print after a Titian painting depicting the angel staying the hand of Abraham as he is about to slay Isaac. Medicine bottles on the window sill suggest that Molly is already ill with the disease that will later kill her
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson., State before black Latin cross added. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and "Plate 3"--Lower left corner.
