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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.
    • Publication:[London] : Pud. March 3d 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, [3 March 1802]
    • Physical Description:1 print : engraving ; plate mark 26.9 x 40.5 cm
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    • Medium:laid paper
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 9845
    • Subjects:Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802.
      Trials (Mutiny)--Great Britain.
      Mutiny--Great Britain.
      Courtrooms.
      Hangings (Executions)
      Justice.
      Military officers--British.
      Sailors--British.
    • Genre/Form:Etchings--England--London.
    • Also listed under:Fores, S. W., publisher.