A lawyer & his client [graphic].

Description

Title: A lawyer & his client [graphic].
Alternative Title: Lawyer and his client
Creator: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, publisher.
Published / Created: May 1812.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Abstract: "A stout lawyer puts his left arm across the shoulders of a lean and distraught client, gripping him with a sinister show of affection, while he scrutinizes his face with the calculating smile of false friendship. He takes a sheaf of 'One' pound notes from his victim's hand. The lawyer is fashionably dressed; a brief-bag is slung from his arm. The client wears old-fashioned dress; his shoes are distended by bunions."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: Law -- Brief bag -- Bunions -- Lawyers and clients.
Leaf 60 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.4 x 21.2 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Provenance: Sold at Dominic Winter Auctions, 9 October 2020, lot 502, purchased through Jarndyce; October 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.2 x 21.3 cm, on sheet 32 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English