Juge de paix [graphic]Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker[15 May 1798]eng"Nicholls, M.P. for Tregony, sits in an arm-chair directed to the left; in his right hand is a tall staff in whose head is an eye; his left hand is thrust under his coat, which is buttoned. From a tricolour ribbon round his neck is suspended a small metal olive-branch. He wears his ordinary dress, his shrunken legs in wide half-boots. The portrait shows the notoriously ugly Nicholls, with his left eye closed, a projecting lower jaw, his upper lip drawn up in a permanent snarl. He sits on a square dais covered with a flowered carpet. Behind is a wall of heavy blocks of stone, in which (above his head) is a niche. In this stands a statue of Justice, her eyes covered by a bonnet-rouge, her scales and sword held up aggressively."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Tenth plate in the series "French habits." First plate in the series has series title "Habits of new French legislators and other public functionaries."Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Temporary local subject terms: French costume: Directory judge -- Emblems: judge's staff and olive branch -- Figure of Justice -- Bonnet rouge.1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.3 x 19.5 cm, on sheet 36.9 x 26.9 cm.Mounted on leaf 50 of volume 4 of 12.