The balance of justice [graphic] : NB in a few days will be published the old gunner lashed to the shrouds.
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Pud. March 3d 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly,
[3 March 1802] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : engraving on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 269 x 405 mm
- Notes:
- Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top.
Text below imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Title from caption below image. - Abstract:
- "From the opposite ends of a horizontal balance hang (left) a triangle from which are suspended the corpses of thirteen sailors, and (right) the body of a military officer in uniform (Governor Wall); all have bandaged eyes. The balance hangs in front of a stone building, in the centre of which is an open door showing men seated at a council table, a messenger stands in the doorway giving a dispatch box marked 'GR' to another messenger, saying, "Deliver this Immediatly He must Die." The pilastered doorway is inscribed: 'Justitiae Soror Fides'; above it are kneeling statues of Truth and Justice; between them they support an inscribed tablet: 'It is determined that British Justice shall never be Stained by Partiality, while the poor & ignorant suffer for their Folly the Rich shall also suffer for their Brutality and Infamy.' On the wall are two placards: (left) 'An Account of the Mutiny', and (right) 'A Full True and Particular Account of the Trial of ... For the Murder of ...' This is headed by a print of a man being tied to a cannon and flogged, while an officer looks on and soldiers stand at attention."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Topics:
- Courtrooms.
Hangings (Executions)
Justice.
Military officers--British.
Mutiny--Great Britain.
Sailors--British.
Trials (Mutiny)--Great Britain. - Topics:
- Fores, S. W., publisher.
Wall, Joseph,--1737-1802. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London.
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- 802.03.03.01+
- Orbis Record:
- 11756932
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr30969
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 9845
- OID:
- 16893197
- PID:
- digcoll:4855812
