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[Judge George Jeffreys] The Lord Chancellor taken disguis'd in Wapping. Engraved for the Devills Broker.
[n.d., c.1688.]
Etching. Sheet 320 x 205mm (12¼ x 8"). Trimmed into plate, to printed border lower right, worn hole lower left, laid on album paper.
George Jeffreys (1645-89), 1st Baron Jeffreys, Judge and Lord Chancellor, captured while attempting to flee England after the Glorious Revolution in 1688. He stands disguised as a sailor saying, "Tear me to pieces" as he is arrested by constables, an angry crowd behind with various speech balloons: "Remember ye West", "Remember Mr. Cornish", "Remember ye Bishops", "Remember Maudlin College", "Knock his brains out". At the top of the sheet at left bust and shoulders of a Quaker saying "Brother Peters what doest thow say" and opposite Father Edward Petre (1631 - 1699) in a Jesuit's cap, says, "Thou wilt be hang'd by yee & nay". At the foot of the sheet, a devil emeges from a flaming hell-mouth to attack the dismembered torso of a Jesuit who lies on the ground. Jeffreys, nicknamed "the hanging judge", is best remembered for his part in suppressing the Monmouth Rebellion against James II's rule in 1685, and for conducting the so-called 'Bloody Assize' in the West Country, at which harsh sentences were handed out to the Duke of Monmouth's followers. Nearly 200 people were hanged, and more than 800 transported to the colonies as indentured labourers.
BM Satires: 1179a.
[Ref: 64203] £1,800.00
Etching. Sheet 320 x 205mm (12¼ x 8"). Trimmed into plate, to printed border lower right, worn hole lower left, laid on album paper.
George Jeffreys (1645-89), 1st Baron Jeffreys, Judge and Lord Chancellor, captured while attempting to flee England after the Glorious Revolution in 1688. He stands disguised as a sailor saying, "Tear me to pieces" as he is arrested by constables, an angry crowd behind with various speech balloons: "Remember ye West", "Remember Mr. Cornish", "Remember ye Bishops", "Remember Maudlin College", "Knock his brains out". At the top of the sheet at left bust and shoulders of a Quaker saying "Brother Peters what doest thow say" and opposite Father Edward Petre (1631 - 1699) in a Jesuit's cap, says, "Thou wilt be hang'd by yee & nay". At the foot of the sheet, a devil emeges from a flaming hell-mouth to attack the dismembered torso of a Jesuit who lies on the ground. Jeffreys, nicknamed "the hanging judge", is best remembered for his part in suppressing the Monmouth Rebellion against James II's rule in 1685, and for conducting the so-called 'Bloody Assize' in the West Country, at which harsh sentences were handed out to the Duke of Monmouth's followers. Nearly 200 people were hanged, and more than 800 transported to the colonies as indentured labourers.
BM Satires: 1179a.
[Ref: 64203] £1,800.00