A single image of a distressed man (the client) wearing a hat, which when turned becomes an image of a gleeful lawyer wearing a periwig
Alternative Title:
Lawyer
Description:
Title from item., Kay's initial burnished from plate, below image of "The Lawyer"?, Numbered "18" in letterpress above plate mark., Plate from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1838, Appendix, no. 18., and Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Nocturnal scene of a churchyard, with a raven perched in a large tree. Below him a sexton with his shovel points towards the left, while glancing back towards a corpulent clergyman, a lawyer holding a candelabra and a shield depicting skull and bones, and a doctor with his gold-headed cane and vial
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered in plate: 326., Bottom edge of image retouched in the plate with drypoint., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, volume 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Verse in plate: Near the church-yard grim Death's purveyors see, with emblems fit a close connected three! One shows a phial, and the other two look their assent, as if they'd say t'will do: The sexton pleas'd stands ready to attend, points to the grave and eyes his greatest friend. Th'ill boding raven seems to croak aloud, swallow the dose, and that bespeaks your shroud., and Publication date erased from this copy of the print.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Leaf 49. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man with the profile of an animal, perhaps a sheep, wearing gown and bands, holds a large tie-wig of the kind worn by judges in his left hand, the fingers of his right hand are held out as if in calculation; he looks at himself in an ornately framed oval mirror on the wall with an expression of singular imbecility. An open door in the back wall shows rows of books in a book-case: on its lintel stands a bust. An oval (half length) portrait hangs on the left of the door, it is of a man in wig and bands, probably the subject of the caricature. Two high-backed chairs are the only furniture of the room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Two lines of text below title: To wig - or not to wig, that is the question., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "14" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject: Portrait of a man in a wig., and Watermark (partially cut off): Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 27, 1774, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bookcases, Chairs, Interiors, Judges, Law offices, Lawyers, Mirrors, Sculpture, Sheep, and Wigs
Leaf 49. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man with the profile of an animal, perhaps a sheep, wearing gown and bands, holds a large tie-wig of the kind worn by judges in his left hand, the fingers of his right hand are held out as if in calculation; he looks at himself in an ornately framed oval mirror on the wall with an expression of singular imbecility. An open door in the back wall shows rows of books in a book-case: on its lintel stands a bust. An oval (half length) portrait hangs on the left of the door, it is of a man in wig and bands, probably the subject of the caricature. Two high-backed chairs are the only furniture of the room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Two lines of text below title: To wig - or not to wig, that is the question., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "14" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject: Portrait of a man in a wig., First of two plates on leaf 49., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 23.7 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 27, 1774, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bookcases, Chairs, Interiors, Judges, Law offices, Lawyers, Mirrors, Sculpture, Sheep, and Wigs
Lawyer outwitted to the tune of I'll love thee more and more
Description:
In four columns with lines of ornamental type between each column; the title and two woodcuts are above the first two columns., Verse begins: "Of a rich counsellor I write,", Imprint below the third and fourth columns., Date from ESTC., Mounted on leaf 24. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Elopement, Love, Man-woman relationships, Fathers and daughters, Lawyers, Wealth, and Horseback riding
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of plate number and placing instructions., "Plate no. 18.", Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Old Bailey -- Symbols: figure of Justice.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Judges, Juries, Lawyers, Spectators, and Witnesses
Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified from original drawing in the Huntington Library., Plate numbered '197' in lower right corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of text below title: Justice - Well, Mr. Blunt, where was you at the time you discovered your sheep ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Smithfield.
Publisher:
Published 1st September 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Butchers, Deafness, Farmers, Lawyers, and Owls
A courtroom scene in which the lawyer in wig and robes points to a piece of paper as he questions the man in the dock
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from other prints in this series., Sheet trimmed within plate mark. Mounted with 5 other prints in the series on blue album paper., "Sunday paper"--Upper right corner., "Pt. 7"--Upper left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1755?]
Call Number:
755.00.00.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An interior view of Westminster Hall, with lawyers and members of the Court talking in small groups. Around the perimeter book stalls, printersellers and book cases
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for John Ryall at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street
