JUSTICE AND MERCY. By A. R. Willett
Copyright by A. R. Willett. Reproduced by permission of the County Commissioners, Mahoning County, Ohio, from a photograph by the Youngstown Art Engraving Company.
JUSTICE AND MERCY
By A. R. Willett
From a mural decoration in the Mahoning County Court House, Youngstown, Ohio.
There is enough realism in this picture to obviate the need of much interpretation. The prosecuting attorney, with the book of the law in his hand, asks that judgment be given. He is in no angry mood, but is merely performing a stern duty. To the right, a wife and mother pleads that justice be tempered with mercy.
“And earthly power doth then show likest God’s,
When mercy seasons justice.”
—The Merchant of Venice.
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