Witnesses in the Audience

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Witnesses in the Audience
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Witnesses in the Audience

Datec. 1880
MediumEtching and softground etching
DimensionsSheet: 348 × 410 mm. (13 11/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
Image: 185 × 264 mm. (7 5/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
Plate: 220 × 286 mm. (8 11/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Daniel and Pearl K. Bell, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Object number1999.370
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Last Updated1/11/24
Image Not Available for Robert Macaire before his judges. Very well! Yes, gentlemen, I was rather unfortunate at the Assize Court... but misfortune is always respectable!... moreover, it’s true what has been said, I've a habit of subtracting money, it's easier to excuse me than someone else because it's harder for me to resist my weakness... as for the rest, I am accused of selling lead for gold? Twenty witnesses swear to it. Very well! I deny it forty times and since two denials are worth an avowal it's clear that you cannot find me guilty. (after this brilliant improvisation Robert Macaire is condemned with a maximum sentence).
Robert Macaire before his judges. Very well! Yes, gentlemen, I was rather unfortunate at the Assize Court... but misfortune is always respectable!... moreover, it’s true what has been said, I've a habit of subtracting money, it's easier to excuse me than someone else because it's harder for me to resist my weakness... as for the rest, I am accused of selling lead for gold? Twenty witnesses swear to it. Very well! I deny it forty times and since two denials are worth an avowal it's clear that you cannot find me guilty. (after this brilliant improvisation Robert Macaire is condemned with a maximum sentence).
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