This scene of courtroom viewing (no. 21) reminds us how much the faculty of sight was associated with rationality and judgement (though this is comically undermined by the fact that the courtroom is peopled by mice).
Dalziel after Alfred Walter Bayes (attributed), unidentified illustration. Probably for the toy book When The Cat’s Away, The Mice Will Play (London: Read, Brooks & Co., [n.d.]). It is most likely that the published illustration was colour printed. Dalziel Archive Vol. XX (1865), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.181, print no. 1292.
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