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Title:The balance of justice [graphic] : NB in a few days will be published the old gunner lashed to the shrouds.
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Publication:[London] : Pud. March 3d 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, [3 March 1802]
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Physical Description:1 print : engraving ; plate mark 26.9 x 40.5 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Call Number: 802.03.03.01+
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Provenance:Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers; November 2013.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Medium:laid paper
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Notes:Title from caption below image.
Text below imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top.
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Summary:"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.
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References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 9845
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Subjects:Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802.
Trials (Mutiny)--Great Britain.
Mutiny--Great Britain.
Courtrooms.
Hangings (Executions)
Justice.
Military officers--British.
Sailors--British.
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Genre/Form:Etchings--England--London.
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Also listed under:Fores, S. W., publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11756932