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Court hearing of a dispute in which a doctor refuses to pay his tailor for some unsatisfactory breeches. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802, after G.M. Woodward.

The judgment of Solomon: he orders the son of one of two harlots to be cut in two, in order to determine which is the baby's mother. Engraving by W. van der Gouwen after B. Picart.

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Court hearing of a dispute in which a doctor refuses to pay his tailor for some unsatisfactory breeches. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802, after G.M. Woodward.

The judgment of Solomon: he orders the son of one of two harlots to be cut in two, in order to determine which is the baby's mother. Engraving by W. van der Gouwen after B. Picart.