A lawyers advice after leaving off practice!! / [graphic]

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Title
A lawyers advice after leaving off practice!! / [graphic]
Creator
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Contributor
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[1815?]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
By Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract

"A lawyer, spectacles on forehead, seated in an arm-chair by a blazing fire (right), listens with quizzically twisted mouth and folded hands to a visitor with a grievance. Between them is a table with glasses, spirit-bottle, as well as a newspaper under the lawyer's elbow. His friend (left) leans forward, gesticulating, to say: "My dear Friend Quilldrive,-- I have a Melancholy affair to communicate, I had put by just five hundred Guineas purposely for Law, and some villian has robb'd me of every farthing!-- what would you advise me to do in this distressing case?" The other answers: "Why--I'd advise you, instead of desponding, to rejoice & sing, for depend upon it, you are a gainer by the loss!!!" A dog, his collar inscribed 'Quild[rive]' sits opposite the fire. On the chimney-piece are a clock and a china mandarin."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Probably a later state; beginning of imprint statement appears to have been burnished from plate.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "182" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.
Also issued separately.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 34 in volume 3.
Provenance
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 25 x 35 cm, on sheet 27 x 40 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
Collection Title
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1815
Etchings England London 1815
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1815
England > London > 1815
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9201301
Object ID (OID)
16192772

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