A lawyer sitting on the left at his desk looks over his shoulder and points with his quill pen as he gives instructions to two thuggish bailiffs who carry bundles of writs. In his hand is a form with 'Middlesex' and 'Wit' written at the upper left and...
Alternative Title:
Match for the devil
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
A lawyer stands in his office between two disconcerted litigants who are turned and walking away from him. As he brings a fork with an oyster on it to his mouth, he offers half of the empty oyster shell to the man on the right. A bald, worn-down look...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Customer relations, Desks, Inkstands, Interiors, Lawyers, and Offices
"The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's ...
Alternative Title:
Ague and fever
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Scene in a stockbroker's office, or perhaps in Jonathan's or Lloyd's, a room with a small writing-desk (right) and on the wall a 'Table of Interest'. The Chevalier d'Eon, dressed as a man, enters from the left and is greeted by a stockbroker who take...
Alternative Title:
Stock-brokers outwitted, Stockbrokers outwitted, and Chevalier D'Eon returned
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810
An elderly husband, with a look of despair and exasperation, sits at a tall cased escritoire, after reading his young wife's account book; she sits in the chair next to the desk hiding her smile behind a handkerchief. Behind her is a harp. On the desk...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Couples, Desks, Harps, Interiors, Parlors, and Writing materials
"Social satire: two contrasting men; one sits at a desk, wearing glasses, writing in an account book, above the title "Riches and Honor"; the other stands at a gaming table throwing dice from a shaker in his right hand, above the title "Infamy and Dis...
Alternative Title:
Infamy and disgrace
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published 2nd Feby. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A thin miser stands before his desk laden ledgers (one with a label 'Avoir'), piles of papers, and bags of money and on top, at tray with carafe (of water?) and a partial loaf of bread with a knife; a ring of keys hang from the lock of the desk drawer...
Alternative Title:
Rien qu'un
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet libraire Rue de Coq no.15
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Desks, Ethnic stereotypes, Avarice, and Misers
