Law, logic and loggerheads [graphic].

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Title: Law, logic and loggerheads [graphic].
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [20 September 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Sep. 20, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: Six caricatures of a lawyer arguing a case in various manners: 1) Influencing the judge, 2) A knock me down argument, 3) A funny case, 4) A forcible argument, 5) A maiden case, and 6) An honest pleader. In the last four vignettes the lawyer holds a scroll with text alluding to: Crim con., a "scondrel of a Jew", and "Black Harry alias Diving Dan ..."
Description: Title from caption below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 16.2 x 50 cm, on sheet 21 x 53 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Judges
Lawyers
Wigs
Subjects: England > 1791
Clothing & dress > England > 1790-1800
Judges
Lawyers
Wigs
England > London > 1791

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