Description of the grand picture of the queen’s trial

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  • Author: Revelli, Vincenzo Antonio.
  • Title: Description of the grand picture of the queen’s trial; presenting correct likenesses of Her Majesty and counsel, and above two hundred other portraits of the principal nobility, with an accurate representation of the interior of the House of Lords, as it appeared on that memorable occasion / painted by V.A. Revelli … Now exhibiting, daily, at no. 80 1/2, Pall Mall.
  • Publication: London : Printed for the proprietor, 1821.

Catalog Record

523 C292 821

Acquired September 2022

Mémoires de monsieur le b[ar]on Pergami

Mémoires de monsieur le b[ar]on Pergami . Title page

  • Author: Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron.
  • Title: Mémoires de monsieur le b[ar]on Pergami : chambellan, chevalier de Malte, chevalier du Saint-Sépulcre, etc. / traduits d’après le manuscrit italien par M. ***.
  • Publication: Paris : Brissot-Thivars, rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs, No. 22 ; Ponthieu, Libraire, Palais-Royal, galerie de bois, No. 201 ; Leroy, au Cabinet littéraire, passage Beaujolais, rue Richelieu, No. 52, 1820.

Catalog record 

53 B445 820

Acquired July 2018

 

A faithful representation of the trial ….

“A realistic view of the House receding in perspective to the Throne, above which is inset an oval bust portrait of Bartolomo Bergami, wearing a cluster of five decorations, see British Museum Satires no. 13810. Some figures and objects have numbers referring to notes in the lower margin. Counsel are in a line across the foreground on each side of the centre figures, who are Gurney the short-hand writer and Majocchi facing the interpreter. The Queen is inconspicuously seated behind Brougham, next a smaller lady who must be the tall Lady Anne Hamilton. Eldon is at the Table in front of the Woolsack. On the Table is 13 Green Bag [see British Museum Satires no. 13735].”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • TitleA faithful representation of the trial of Her Most Gracious Majesty Caroline Queen of England, in the House of Lords, 1820 [graphic].
  • Publication[London] : [publisher not identified], [ca. November 1820]

Catalog Record

Drawer 820.11.00.01

Acquired April 2017

The trial between William Fawkener … plaintiff, and the Honourable John Townshend

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  • AuthorTownshend, John, Hon.
  • TitleThe trial between William Fawkener … plaintiff, and the Honourable John Townshend … defendant; for criminal conversation with the plaintiff’s wife … Before the Honourable Francis Buller, Esq.; one of the judges of His Majesty’s Court of king’s bench, in Westminster-hall, on Wednesday the 12th of July, 1786. With some interesting particulars relative to the duel between the plaintiff and the defendant.
  • PublishedLondon, M. Smith, 1786.

Catalog Record

523 F27 786

Acquired September 2016

The trial of Andrew Robinson Bowes, Esq.

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  • Author: Bowes, Andrew Robinson Stoney, 1747-1810.
  • Title: The trial of Andrew Robinson Bowes, Esq. for adultery and cruelty :  first heard in the Arches Court of Doctors Commons, and, in consequence of an appeal, determined in a Court of Delegates on the 2d of this instant, when the Right Honourable the Countess of Strathmore obtained a divorce.
  • Published: London : Printed for R. Randall …, 1789.

Catalog record

523 B67 789

Acquired November 2012