Thomas Gainsborough The Harvest Wagon painting

Thomas Gainsborough The Harvest Wagon paintingThomas Gainsborough Lord Ligonier paintingThomas Gainsborough Landscape in Suffolk painting
that he could not continue to judge a case under such conditions and adjourned it until the evening. Piso was conveyed away under escort-Plancina, who had hitherto boasted that she would share her husband's fate whatever it might be, and if necessary die with him, now grew alarmed. She decided to make a separate defence and counted on Livia, with whom she had been on intimate terms, to get her off. Piso knew nothing of this treachery. When the trial was resumed Tiberius gave him no sign of sympathy, and though he told the accusers that they should have provided more conclusive evidence of poisoning, he warned Piso that his armed attempt to win back his province could never be forgiven. At Home that evening Piso shut himself in his room and was found the next morning stabbed to death with his sword beside him. It was not, as a matter of fact, suicide.
For Piso had retained the most incriminating letter of all, one written to him by Livia but .in the names of Tiberius and herself, and not stamped