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Concept

Lawyers

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  • Personifications of law, medicine and theology argue over the superiority of their respective professions. Engraving by GWHWHNM, ca. 1720.
  • A man standing in a law court vows to reform to temperance. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • Country folk pushing a lawyer, a physician and a gouty vicar in wheelbarrows out of their village. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819.
  • A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.
  • The dance of death. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1808, after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1795/1797.
  • A doctor trying to sell youthfulness potions to an elderly lawyer. Lithograph.
  • A black man stands in the office of a white lawyer whose servant he is, while across the road is the pharmacy where he had previously been a servant. Engraving, 1805.
  • A dying man making his will to lawyers while a relative cries. Line engraving.
  • Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.
  • A solicitor and a barrister throw black paint or tar at a woman sitting at the feet of a statue of Justice. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1892.
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    A convicted thief stands on trial in a packed law court while his sister weeps. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: 1848 | Reference: 26030i
    Part of: The drunkard's children
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    A man sitting in a chair, reading a document to another man who holds his hat in his lap. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.

    Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827. | Date: 1784 | Reference: 31627i
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    A solicitor and a barrister throw black paint or tar at a woman sitting at the feet of a statue of Justice. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1892.

    Merry, Tom, 1852-1902. | Date: January 9th 1892 | Reference: 564947i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Miscellany: English, chiefly 19th-20th centuries

    | Date: 1777-1940 | Reference: MS.7430
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    A physician, a lawyer and a vicar; represented as outlandish figures. Coloured etching.

    | Reference: 10772i
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