The convicted traitor Robert Watt sits on an open sled being pulled by a horse through a city square. A man in a hat, perhaps the executioner, sits across from him holding an axe. Soldiers escort the sled through the crowd. In the distance on the right, a man stands on a platform outside the upper floor of a building and readies a noose
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: Exshaw's Gentleman's and London magazine. Dublin : J. Exshaw, October 1794., and Sheet mutilated along bottom edge with slight loss of text.
Publisher:
J. Exshaw
Subject (Geographic):
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Subject (Name):
Watt, Robert, -1794.
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Executions, Plazas, and Sleds & sleighs
Three-quarter length portrait of John Bellingham, assassin of the Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, standing in profile to the left, holding an open letter in his right hand and his left hand on the rail
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably an Irish copy in reverse of: John Bellingham taken at the Sessions House, Old Bailey ... / drawn & etc'd by Dennes [sic] Dighton. [London] : Pubd. as the act directs by Dighton, Spring Gardens, May 16, 1812. Cf. No. 11882 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 164.
Publisher:
Pub. by McCleary, 32 Nassau St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bellingham, John, 1770-1812
Subject (Topic):
Trials (Murder), Assassinations, Criminals, and Judicial proceedings