The Bench : of the different meaning of the words character, caracatura and outré in painting and drawing [engraving]
1758
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
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Title
The Bench : of the different meaning of the words character, caracatura and outré in painting and drawing [engraving]
Published
[London] : Published as the Act directs, 4 Sep. 1758 [i.e. 1764?]
Description
1 print : ill. ; 31 x 22 cm. on a leaf 46 x 29 cm.
Call Number
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
Note
Engraved text beneath the image finishes with the following: The unfinished group of heads in the upper part of this print was added by the author in October 1764 & was intended as a further illustration .... He worked upon it the day before his death which happened on the 26th of that month.
A satire on the false sagacity, pomposity, cruelty, and insincerity hidden beneath the robes of office. Walpole had referred to Noel, one of the members of the bench, as "a pompous man of little solidity." -- Oxford DNB.
For the earlier, 1758 version of this plate, see Ronald Paulson. Hogarth: his life, art, and times, p. 369. See also p. 442 for a discussion of the source of the unfinished heads: The sacrifice at Lystra and other Raphael cartoons.
In pencil, in an unidentified hand, below the four most prominent judges respectively: Hon. [William] Noel; Sir Edward Clive; Sir John Willes, dozing next to Bathurst; Hon. Henry Bathurst. All were the top-ranking justices in the Court of Common Pleas, Willes being the Chief Justice of that court. The chief justice had written to Newcastle advising that there were two methods of trying Byng, "by a court martial or an impeachment.... [B]ut he cannot be capitally convicted on an impeachment." --Dudley Pope. At twelve Mr. Byng was shot, p. 211.
Lord Bathurst, at far right in the engraving, sat on the King's council at its meeting on 16 Feb. 1757 -- see page 129 of The Trial (on leaf 191r of The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757) for a list of those present to receive the report of the 12 judges.
On leaf 203r of The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757
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A satire on the false sagacity, pomposity, cruelty, and insincerity hidden beneath the robes of office. Walpole had referred to Noel, one of the members of the bench, as "a pompous man of little solidity." -- Oxford DNB.
For the earlier, 1758 version of this plate, see Ronald Paulson. Hogarth: his life, art, and times, p. 369. See also p. 442 for a discussion of the source of the unfinished heads: The sacrifice at Lystra and other Raphael cartoons.
In pencil, in an unidentified hand, below the four most prominent judges respectively: Hon. [William] Noel; Sir Edward Clive; Sir John Willes, dozing next to Bathurst; Hon. Henry Bathurst. All were the top-ranking justices in the Court of Common Pleas, Willes being the Chief Justice of that court. The chief justice had written to Newcastle advising that there were two methods of trying Byng, "by a court martial or an impeachment.... [B]ut he cannot be capitally convicted on an impeachment." --Dudley Pope. At twelve Mr. Byng was shot, p. 211.
Lord Bathurst, at far right in the engraving, sat on the King's council at its meeting on 16 Feb. 1757 -- see page 129 of The Trial (on leaf 191r of The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757) for a list of those present to receive the report of the 12 judges.
On leaf 203r of The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757
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