File:The First Day of Term - or, The Devil among the Lawyers (BM 1935,0522.1.100).jpg

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The First Day of Term - or, The Devil among the Lawyers   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: Bowles & Carver
Title
The First Day of Term - or, The Devil among the Lawyers
Description
English: Satire: the Devil stands scattering lucrative briefs among a crowd of lawyers, while an elderly countryman in the foreground hands over gold coin to one who accepts the case of 'Gaffer Flatscull agt. Ralph Clodpole', on the ground lies a packet of papers wrapped in red tape and lettered 'Began in1699 not yet finished In Chancery'. c.1780
Hand-coloured mezzotint
Date between 1775 and 1785
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1775-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 343 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1935,0522.1.100
Notes

Dighton's original watercolour for this print was sold at Sotheby's, 30 April 1953 and again from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 66.

An impression with Andrew Edmunds in 2015 has the same date and the number '625'.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-100
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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