The Sinner on the cutty stool; One of two plates from The Trial of Rev. Alexander Fletcher, A.M., before the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Sense
London: Knight and Lacey, 1825. Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor, 4 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches (106 x 182 mm), full margins. Scattered light foxing, dog-eared corners (upper right & lower left), and minor age tone. Colors remain fresh. An impression of this print may be found in the permanent collection of the British Museum.
Comments on this image from curator M. Dorothy George in her 1952 "Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum," tell us that the "trial" is taking place before a jury of notables, including Thomas Campbell, Thomas Moore, Samuel Rogers, and Sir William Curtis, with Sir Walter Scott as foreman. In the accompanying text the Reverand Alexander Fletcher is found guilty on several counts including "sundry shifts, shufflings, artifices, subterfuges, fictions, fabrications."
Item number: 737
Price: $75.00
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