Title

John Bellingham, n.d. Creator: Denis Dighton.

Caption

John Bellingham, n.d. 'Taken at the Sessions House, Old Bailey, May 15th 1812'. British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot and killed in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham, a merchant who had been wrongly imprisoned in Russia. He bore a grievance against the British government after it had rejected his petitions for compensation. Bellingham was hanged in public three days after being found guilty.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A04_331

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

18,2Mo (1,4Mo) / 17,9cm x 25,4cm / 2115 x 3000 (300dpi)

Keywords

England court arts country law art crime British letter English color KILLER profile dock location century gallery trial notes Britain prisoner criminal evidence witness court of law murder print courtroom defendant slaughter murderer assassin assassination art gallery Colour 19th century court case witness box law court nineteenth century court room murdering Old Bailey slaughtering witness stand etching portrait John Spencer Denis Dighton Art Institute of Chicago Dighton Denis art centre Spencer Perceval Perceval Heritage Art 19th-century Art Institute Chicago Prints and Drawings Color etching on paper John Bellingham Bellingham S Perceval