Temptation for lawyers [graphic] / etcd. by Roberts.

Creator:

Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London] :
[Thomas Tegg],
[1803?]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.7 x 35.8 cm

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Notes:

Title etched below image.
Artist questionably identified as Woodward in the British Museum catalogue.
Reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published by Piercy Roberts; Roberts's imprint is still present in lower left corner but has been obscured with etched lines. See British Museum catalogue.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "266" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW
Temporary local subject terms: Demons -- Lawyers -- Chancery.

Abstract:

"Two demons (right) hold up a long scroll headed ' A Suit in Chancery'; the rolled end rests on the ground. Five lawyers (left) jostle each other to get places for the race towards it. The foremost presses the others back, saying, "Start fair Gentlemen, if you Please". Three of them wear long gowns; the others are in ordinary dress, but one of them wears bands."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--1803.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1803.
Watermarks (Paper)--1817.--CtY-LW
Watermarks (Paper)--Turkey Mill.--CtY-LW

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Source Title:

Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.

Call Number:

803.00.00.08+
Folio 75 W87 807 v.4

Orbis Record:

8386055

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr14582

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10198

OID:

16192738

PID:

digcoll:4046613