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Impeachment ticket. For the trial of W-RR-NH-ST-NGS Esqr   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Impeachment ticket. For the trial of W-RR-NH-ST-NGS Esqr
Description
English: A parody of, or parodied by, BMSat 7276. The three battering-rams of the escutcheon are reversed and terminate in the heads of Burke, Fox, and Francis with rams' horns, but the necks of Burke and Francis are much reduced in width. The arm of the crest holds a bludgeon. The supporters are: dexter, a kneeling Indian wearing a loin-cloth, who clasps his hands with an expression of terrified anxiety. Sinister, Thurlow seated on the pan of a close-stool, his hands clasped and glaring fiercely, but with tears falling down his cheek. On the scroll is the motto 'Sub Libertate Tyranni' (as in BMSat 7276). Beneath the coat of arms is a burlesqued view of Westminster Hall: Hastings kneels on the ground before Thurlow, whose seat is raised above three (?) clerks. There are no boxes, but Fox (left) stands declaiming, Burke and (?) Sheridan sit on a bench beside him on the extreme left. Hastings's three counsel, Law, Plumer, and Dallas, sit on a corresponding bench on the right. Tiers of faces are indicated as a background. In a scroll on the left are the words 'From Bribery & Corruption Good Lord deliver us'. A corresponding scroll (right) is inscribed 'From Envy & Malice!!! Good Lord, deliver us'. c.February 1788
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Edmund Burke
Date circa 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 192 millimetres
Width: 150 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.391
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

For Thurlow's supposed protection of Hastings see BMSat 7278, &c.; for the trial, BMSat 7269, &c. For the signature cf. BMSat 7146.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-391
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