"Interior view of the Doctors' Commons, on Knightrider Street, London; the court in session seen through large arches; civilians watching court in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Augt. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Tree of law in a frame decorated with a garland of leaves, surmounted by a portrait of Robert Price in an oval, wearing a long wig and judges' robes and bands, with banner lettered 'Legum Decus Patriae Que Is Erat'; to left and right, two female alle...
Alternative Title:
Inutilis et sine fructu labor, non est legis, effectus
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Sold by Ph. Overton in Fleet Street and J. King in the Poultry, Printsellers entered in the Hall Book, London
"Two men, wearing patched and ragged clothes, stand together. One (left) stands full-face, arms folded, shoulders hunched, staring to the right with fierce despair. From his pocket issues a bulky document: 'By Law I'm Ruin'd quite'. The other (right) ...
Alternative Title:
John Doe & Richd. Roe, brothers in law and John Doe and Richd. Roe, brothers in law
"Two men, wearing patched and ragged clothes, stand together. One (left) stands full-face, arms folded, shoulders hunched, staring to the right with fierce despair. From his pocket issues a bulky document: 'By Law I'm Ruin'd quite'. The other (right) ...
Alternative Title:
John Doe & Richd. Roe, brothers in law and John Doe and Richd. Roe, brothers in law
Copy in reverse of William Hogarth's "Woman swearing a child to a grave citizen. A pregnant young woman standing to left, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to right, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ru...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Paternity, Courtrooms, Couples, Judges, Law & legal affairs, Pregnancy, and Pregnant women
"The Knave of Clubs, 'Pam', sits in state in a ramshackle attic, one foot resting regally on a footstool. He is faint-hearted and melancholy and turns to a dapper little man (Sir Walter Stirling) at his right hand, who is supported by the Devil. He sa...
Alternative Title:
Pam be civil
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published September 1812 by Y.Z. & sold by Clinch, Princes Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Stirling, Walter, 1758-1832 and Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Interiors, Attics, Fireplaces, Medicines, Alcoholic beverages, Bottles, Lawyers, Wills, and Law & legal affairs
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 11 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pregnant woman holds a bible in one hand and rests her other hand on her protruding stomach while 'swearing a child' before a shocked looking magistrate. The alleged father(?) is kneeling beside the woman with clasped hands and his hat removed and r...
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Paternity, Pregnancy, Pregnant women, Judges, Law & legal affairs, and Bibles
Satire on royalty, episcopacy and the law, after a print by Hogarth; a group of nine composite figures, the most prominent of which are a king, whose head is represented by a coin, a bishop whose head is a jew's harp, and a judge whose head is a gavel...
Alternative Title:
Some of the principal inhabitants of [the] moon, as they were perfectly discover'd by a telescope brought to [the] greatest perfection since [the] last eclipse; exactly engraved from the objects whereby [the] curious may guess at their religion, manners, &c.
Description:
Title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st May 1788, by Molton & Co., 132 Pall Mall
Subject (Topic):
Bishops, Law & legal affairs, Rulers, and Allegorical prints
