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James Gillray
1756-1815
Judge Thumb, or, Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawful
etching with engraving & stipple engraving
image: 302 x 226 mm; plate mark: 349 x 247 mm; sheet: 326 x 227 mm
Peel 2414
Published:
[London] : Pubd. Novr. 27th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, [1782]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Title from item.
Printmaker from Brtiish Museum online catalog; a reduced copy of this print was published in The caricatures of Gillray (London : John Miller, [1818]).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Judge Buller of King's Bench, is shown walking towards the right in his judicial robes, carrying two bundles of sticks, each terminating in the shape of a thumb. To the rear and on a smaller scale is a man beating his wife with one of the judge's implements. Buller was reputed to have ruled that a wife could legitimately be beaten provided the stick used by her husband was no thicker than his thumb.
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