The lawyers last circuit [graphic].

Description

Title: The lawyers last circuit [graphic].
Creator: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Contributor: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1806]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 1806 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate is part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by S.W. Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams.
Plate is numbered in lower left corner: No. 1 Pl. 7.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Three lines of Shakespearian prose below title: Where be his quiddits now? his quillets? his cases? his tenures? and his tricks? Why does he suffer this rude knave to knock him about the sconce with a rotten jaw bone ...-Hamlet.
Original print was executed by Thomas Rowlandson.
Temporary local subject terms: Lawyers -- Skeletons -- Signs: sign-posts -- Hell.
Watermark: Strasburg Lily [partially trimmed].
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 9.2 x 12.5 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1806
Etchings England London 1806
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with stipple ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1806
England > London > 1806

Access: Public
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