The lawyer's last circuit [graphic]

Description

Title: The lawyer's last circuit [graphic]
Creator: Baker, J. (John), active 1819-1824, printmaker
Published / Created: ca. 1819?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by E. King, Chancery Lane and Printed by N. Chater
Abstract: A fat lawyer clutching a purse is sped toward the flames of hell on a skeletal horse ridden by Death who is depicted as a skeleton carrying a scythe. A naked long-haired devil holding snakes pursues them on a snorting white horse, while in the foreground, beside a chained Cerberus, jubilant demons welcome the new arrival
Description: Title from words etched in banner at top of image.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Copy, after No. 6128 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v. 22, p. 43; May 1954.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1819
Lithographs
Material: pen lithograph ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cerberus (Greek mythology)
Lawyers
Hell
Horses
Horseback riding
Devil
Demons
Death
Subjects: Cerberus (Greek mythology)
Lawyers
Hell
Horses
Horseback riding
Devil
Demons
Death
England > 1819

Access: Public
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