The danger and folly of goeing to law [graphic]

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Title: The danger and folly of goeing to law [graphic]
Alternative Title: Danger and folly of going to law
Creator: Parr, Richard, printmaker
Contributor: Davise, George, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament Septr. 1740.
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title engraved above image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
The design is composed of a large rectangular image at top center of sheet and another image below it, both flanked by three small images in form of vignettes on each side.
Central upper panel is a reissue of a plate published ca. 1733: Law is a bottomless pit. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1990.
Verse inscribed below image: Two neighbors sought revenge: to law they went, thro' passions blind, spurr'd on by discontent ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 41 x 51 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1740
Etchings England London 1740
Poems England 1740
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Topic): Courtrooms
Law & legal affairs
Judicial proceedings
Subjects: Courtrooms > England
Law & legal affairs > England
Judicial proceedings > England
England > 1740
England > London > 1740

Access: Public
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