Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committee of the House of Commons
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 17 3/8 x 21 15/16 in. (44.2 x 55.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891
Accession Number
91.1.68
Tags
Art Historical Context
This striking engraving, *Bambridge on Trial Murder by a Committee of House of Commons*, captures pivotal moment of 18th-century British justice and reform. Created in 1803 Thomas Cook after William Hogarth's original satirical design, it depicts the 1729 parliamentary inquiry into Thomas Bambridge, brutal keeper of Newgate Prison.aired by James Ogle—a philanthropist and founder of the Georgia colony—the committee exposed shocking abuses, including Bambridge's role in the savage beating death of debtor prisoner Thomas Billings. Hogarth's scene teems with dramatic tension, portraying Bambridge ...
About the Artist
Thomas Cook|James Oglethorpe|Jacob Mendes da Sola|Thomas Bambridge|G. G. J. & J. Robinson|William Hogarth (British|British) · 1697 |1744 –1764 |1818
British, London 1697–1764 London|British, 1744?–1818