A counciller [graphic]

Description

Title: A counciller [graphic]
Alternative Title: Councillor
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Abstract: "An obese and carbuncled barrister stands in profile to the left, shouting with raised fingers; in his left hand is a sheaf of papers. He wears the wig of a serjeant-at-law, with its black patch (cf. No. 5900), and his gown drapes his old-fashioned professional dress. Behind him (right) stands a senile-looking and spectacled colleague, while a third (left), also in a serjeant's wig, sits in back view in an arm-chair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
A companion print to: A money scrivener.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. IX ; May 9, 1954 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34.7 x 24.5 cm, on sheet 39 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Stamps
Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Stipple engravings England London 1801
Etchings England London 1801
Material: etching and stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Eyeglasses
Lawyers
Wigs
Subjects: Eyeglasses
Lawyers
Wigs
England > 1801
England > London > 1801
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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