Temptation for lawyers [graphic] / etcd. by Roberts

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Title: Temptation for lawyers [graphic] / etcd. by Roberts
Creator: Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [1803?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Thomas Tegg
Abstract: "Two demons (right) hold up a long scroll headed ' A Suit in Chancery'; the rolled end rests on the ground. Five lawyers (left) jostle each other to get places for the race towards it. The foremost presses the others back, saying, "Start fair Gentlemen, if you Please". Three of them wear long gowns; the others are in ordinary dress, but one of them wears bands."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Artist questionably identified as Woodward in the British Museum catalogue.
Reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published by Piercy Roberts; Roberts's imprint is still present in lower left corner but has been obscured with etched lines. See British Museum catalogue.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "266" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Demons -- Lawyers -- Chancery.
Watermark: Turkey Mill.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. XII.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25.7 x 35.8 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 803.00.00.08+
Collection Title: V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England 1803
Watermarks (Paper) Turkey Mill
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1803
Turkey Mill
1817

Access: Public
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