[The triple plea] [art original]
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Description
- Title
- [The triple plea] [art original]
- Creator
- Pembroke, Thomas, artist
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1740]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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Satirical drawing on the professions of medicine, law and the church. Three practitioners stand in a well furnished interior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document, the clergyman a book, and the physician a phial. Pictures on the wall show men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tithes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside
- Description
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Title from that of the print likely engraved after this drawing.
Signed by the artist in ink on verso.
Date of production based on that assigned to the print with the same image in reverse by Louis Philippe Boitard. See online record for no. 1775 in the British Museum online catalogue.
Formerly laid in at page 207 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Original case shelved separately. - Provenance
- Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : sheet 23.4 x 19 cm
- Language
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No linguistic content
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 56 Box 5
- Collection Title
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Collection / Other Creator
- Bull, Richard, 1725-1806.
- Collection Date
- [England], [not after 1806]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century - Material
- pen and ink with gray wash mounted on red laid paper backing ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Clergy
Interiors
Lawyers
Pictures
Physicians
Quarreling - Subjects
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Clergy
Interiors
Lawyers
Pictures
Physicians
Quarreling
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Thomas Pembroke, The Triple Plea. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13117250
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193711