Temptation for lawyers [graphic] / etcd. by Roberts

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16192738

Description

Title
Temptation for lawyers [graphic] / etcd. by Roberts
Creator
Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
Contributor
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[1803?]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Thomas Tegg
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

Description
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.
Temporary local subject terms: Demons -- Lawyers -- Chancery.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.
Watermark: 1817.
Pencil drawing of a tree has been added to upper left corner of unrolled scroll in image.
Leaf 46 in volume 4.
Provenance
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
Extent
1 print : sheet 25.7 x 35.8 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
Collection Title
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England 1803
Watermarks (Paper) Turkey Mill
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1803
Turkey Mill
1817

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Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8386055
Object ID (OID)
16192738

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