Details
Robert Dighton (1752-1814)
The First Day of Term - or The Devil among Lawyers. 'The Lawyers are met, a terrible Show'
inscribed as title and numbered, '625' in the margin; pencil, pen and ink and watercolour with touches of white heightening
13¾ x 10 1/8in. (349 x 257mm.)
The First Day of Term - or The Devil among Lawyers. 'The Lawyers are met, a terrible Show'
inscribed as title and numbered, '625' in the margin; pencil, pen and ink and watercolour with touches of white heightening
13¾ x 10 1/8in. (349 x 257mm.)
Provenance
Jeffrey Rose; Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 66
Literature
M.D. George, Catalogue of the Political & Personal Satires, London, p. 98-9, pl. 87
Engraved
By Bowles and Carver (G. 3764). In the engraving the sheet beneath the lawyer's arm on the extreme right saying 'Practice of Petty Fogging', is left out