<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>No. 1. Blessings of Brittain, or, A flight of lawyers [graphic].</dc:title><dc:creator>Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[not before January 1817]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"The Lord Chancellor (Eldon), preceded by his mace-bearer holding a sword, is about to alight on the pavement outside Westminster Hall (left), having flown diagonally down from the right; next him is (?) the Vice-Chancellor Plumer, close behind are eight other judges followed by a closely packed swarm of barristers who recede in perspective. All are in wig and gown. Behind the barristers are their clerks, wearing top-hats and carrying (green) brief-bags over their shoulders. Three men stand outside the door of Westminster Hall waiting obsequiously to receive the Chancellor and his swarm; one is a constable holding his staff, the others wear black gowns, the foremost having cloven hoofs. In the street below (right) a few terrified pedestrians look up at the monstrous flight."--British Museum online catalogue</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.</dc:description><dc:description>Later state; plate number has been altered and beginning of imprint statement has been removed from plate.</dc:description><dc:description>Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Jany. 1817 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. See British Museum catalogue.</dc:description><dc:description>One line of quoted text following title: "A darksome cloud of locusts swarming down." Milton.</dc:description><dc:description>Plate numbered "200" in upper right corner.</dc:description><dc:description>Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.</dc:description><dc:description>Also issued separately.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.</dc:description><dc:description>1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.</dc:description><dc:description>Watermark: 1817.</dc:description><dc:description>Leaf 54 in volume 3.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>