Thomas Cook after William Hogarth
Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committee of the House of Commons
London, G & J Robinson June 1st. 1803
Engraving
435 x 545 mm
£180
Interior of the Fleet Prison with the House of Commons committee appointed to enquire into the state of gaols (after Hogarth’s painting of c.1729 in the National Portrait Gallery); to left, James Oglethorpe, Chairman of the Committee, confronts the warden of the Fleet, Thomas Bambridge; in the foreground, a prisoner (probably Jacob Mendes da Sola) kneels in shackles.
