The danger and folly of goeing to law [graphic]

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Title: The danger and folly of goeing to law [graphic]
Alternative Title: Danger and folly of going to law
Law is a bottomless pit
Creator: Parr, Richard, printmaker
Contributor: Davise, George, artist.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament, Septr. 17th 1775.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
The design is composed of a large rectangular image at top center of sheet and another image below it, and three small images in form of vignettes on each side of the sheet.
Possibly a 2nd state, with title of the 1733 edition of the rectangular image at top etched in the enter of that image. Cf. The danger and folly of goeing to law / George Davise inv. ; R. Parr sculp. [London], 1740, and Law is a bottomless pit, ca. 1733.
Central upper panel is a later state of Law is a bottomless pit, ca. 1733. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1990.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Folded and mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 41 x 51 cm
Edition: [State 2?].
Language: English

Access: Public
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