Judge Thumb, or, Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawful! [graphic].

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Title: Judge Thumb, or, Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawful! [graphic].
Alternative Title: Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawful!
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Buller, Francis,--1746-1800--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Published / Created: 1782 November 27
Copyright Date: [27 November 1782]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Abstract: 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.
Description: Originally published with the imprint: Pubd. Novr. 27th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.5 x 21.2 cm, on sheet 49 x 31 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Annotations (Provenance)--CtY-LW
Etchings--England--London--1782.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1782.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Buller, Francis,--1746-1800--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Subject (Topic): Judges--England--London--18th century.
Wife abuse--England--Early works to 1800.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6123
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 43