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Author:
Title: James Stuart Hung by the Vigilance Committee on Market St. Wharf, on the 11th of July 1851
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Justh, Quirot & Co.
Date Published: 1851
Description:

Lithograph illustration, 16.7x27 cm (6½x10½"), on single sheet measuring 21.5x27.2 cm (8½x10¾"), gray wove paper (blank conjugate not present).

A multitude of men crowd the wharf and clamber over rigging and deck of the Byron, left foreground, to see Stuart hanged from improvised gibbet near end of wharf; a few spectators in small boats; some buildings in background. Van Nostrand & Coulter attribute the painting from which this image was made to English artist John Prendergast (California Pictorial, pp. 150-51): "The title of the painting was Justice Meted Out to English Jim. Gold Rush California attracted a motley population. There were those who came to dig gold and those who came to rob them of it.... 'English Jim' was a notorious criminal from Australia, one of the infamous Sydney Ducks. He was apprehended and brought before the [Vigilance] Committee on July 10, 1851, for some minor offense, but under questioning confessed to a whole series of atrocious crimes. The Committee made short work of him." Peters, California on Stone, p. 134. Baird 121; Clifford 132.

A little sunning to the paper; very good.