"The three Bow Street Justices sit at a rectangular table (left); Addington in the chair, the scales of Justice, evenly balanced, above his head; on his right and on the extreme left, Bond(?) is writing: 'Wright. W. against [?]...'. The third sits resting his chin on his hands, which are supported on the head of his cane; he gazes fixedly at the culprit. 'Lying-Jack' stands in a rectangular pen formed of posts and rails immediately in front of the justices, his elbows resting on the rail, his hands clasped, his knees bent, tears falling. He says: "Oh! God dang it, - your Worship, do take bail, your Honor tw'ant my fault please your Majesty, that I com'd the Black-guard over him: - God dang it, didn't he say that his thing was printed before mine? & that all my things were only Copies & piracies? - God dang it, your Worship, Ax Almon ye Bookseller if I was a Blackguard all the while I was a Porter! - or ax ye people where I & Wife kept a small-coal Cellar in Leather Lane if I'm a Blackguard! - God dang it, was I act like a Blackguard when I let that Cooper the Printer, pull me by the Nose, only for saying he was a Liar? - god dang it, your honor, was it like a Blackguard when I offer'd to beg Ridgeway's pardon, after he had kick'd my own Arse in my own Shop? - but I sees how the Booksellers all hates me! & wants to ruin me! - & says I lives by only Copying other peoples works your Worship! - 'tho' I only 'bridges 'em! - yes your Worship, they all hates me; & respires against me: & calls me Lying-Jack, your honor, - & Filching Jack the Plagurist! - & Stock'ee Jack the Informer! your honor - ah Gad dang it! Gad dang it, - they'll be my ruin your Honor! Gad dang it Gott damn. . . .[The last words dwindle into illegibility]" From his pocket hangs a paper: 'Speech of the Lord Chanr of Ireland'. Beside him, outside the dock, is a large bundle of books tied together, the wrapper inscribed 'Ways & Means'; these are: 'Sandford & Merton', 'G Nicol... Abridgd Embassy to China', 'D. Cox, Piracy', 'Harpers Pamphlet', 'Philanthropic Society'. Against the bundle lies a porter's knot (a pad for the shoulders attached to a ring which goes over the head) inscribed: 'Lying-Jack his Knot'. With this are the implements of a blacksmith : hammer, pliers, and horse-shoe. On the wall behind him are three bills: 'Lying Jack the Thief Taker'; 'Perjury'; 'Injuntion [sic] of the Court of Chancery agains Lying Jacks copy', and a map: 'Original Map of the Island of St Domingo by W. Faden. Charing Cross.'"--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print of which this drawing is a copy.
Alternative Title:
Lying Jack the blacksmith at confession and Lying Jack the bookseller at confession
Description:
Copy of a print by Gillray published 13 March 1798. Cf. No. 9186 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Date of publication based on that of the print of which this is a copy., 'Imprint statement' written in pencil below lower left margin of image: Pubd. March 13, 1798, by Lying Jack., Note written in pencil following 'imprint statement': Price 6 d., for the benefit of the Philanthropic Society., One line of text written in pencil below title: Scene: Bow Street, with Lying Jack answering a charge of abuse & blackguardism., and Title from note in pencil below image, in artist's hand; word "bookseller" is crossed out and "blacksmith" is written above, inserted with a caret.
Subject (Name):
Addington, William,--Sir,---1811--Caricatures and cartoons., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bond, Nicholas,---1807--Caricatures and cartoons., Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50033402, Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Stockdale, John,--1749?-1814--Caricatures and cartoons.
Digital photograph taken by Carl Kaufman and William Sacco, Yale Photo and Design, in 2009 of an oil portrait in the Yale School of Medicine. Deane Keller painted this portrait after an earlier portrait in the Connecticut Historical Society.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Connecticut Retreat for the Insane and Todd, Eli, 1769-1833
DeCusati, Emiddio Sharples, James Yale Art Gallery
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Description:
Smith, a graduate of Yale College and a Connecticut physician, moved to New York where he became one of the founding editors of the Medical Repository (1797), the first American medical journal. He died in the yellow fever epidemic in New York in 1798. This pastel portrait hangs in the Steiner Room.
Elijah W. Carpenter attended the first session of the Medical institution of Yale College in 1813-1814. He stayed only one year and did not obtain an M.D. from Yale. This engraving is located in the Elijah W. Carpenter papers. Inscription: "J. G. Chandler Lith. Boston."
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Carpenter, Elijah W., 1778-1855 and Yale College (1718-1887). Medical Institution