Hudibras and the lawyer [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London?]
[publisher not identified]
[late 18th century?]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 270 x 354 mm, on sheet 283 x 372 mm

Notes:

Title engraved below image.
After Hogarth.
Caption on either side of title begins: To this grave [sic] man, the knight repairs, for counsel in his law-affairs; ...
Copy of no. 515 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1.
See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 93.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i, p. 33; May 1954.

Abstract:

Hudibras with his hat in hand approaches a lawyer who sits in an elaborately carved chair on a rise. In front of the lawyer are his two clerks at a low table, at his side, shelves of books and papers. On the right in the foreground is a carved figure of Justice holding scales. In the background on the left two women stand in the doorway. In the left foreground are two dogs, one of whom watches the action attentively while the other lies with its head turned away.

Associated Names:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680
Clerks
Dogs
Justice
Law offices
Lawyers
Puritans -- England
Women

Topics:

Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Humor -- Early works to 1800

Language:

English

Genre:

Book illustrations -- 1770
Engravings -- England -- London -- 1770
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1770
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1770

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

Hogarth 770.00.00.200 Box 112

Orbis Record:

11316556

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22625

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16034733

PID:

digcoll:2810250