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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 July 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.07.29.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene of the crowded interior of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the trial of Charlotte Corday for the murder of Jean Marat. Corday stands at the bar, her wrists in chains, as she confronts the three judges, grotesque figures -- a barber, a tailor, and a butcher. Marat's body lies between them on a wooden bedstead, his blood stained shirt on a pike
- Description:
- Title etched above image., One line of quoted text below title: "The noble enthusiasm with which this woman met the charge, & the elevated disdain with which she treated the self created tribunal, struck the whole assembly with terror & astonishment.", and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. July 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and France.
- Subject (Name):
- Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793, Corday, Charlotte, 1768-1793, and France. Tribunal révolutionnaire.
- Subject (Topic):
- Assassination, History, and Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The heroic Charlotte la Cordé upon her trial at the bar of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris, July 17th, 1793 for having rid the world of that monster of atheism and murder the regicide Marat, whom she stabbed in a bath where he had retired on account of a leprosy with which Heaven had begun the punishment of his crimes / [graphic]