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A Bailiff and an Attorney - A Match for the Devil   (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
A Bailiff and an Attorney - A Match for the Devil
Description
English: Satire: a lawyer sitting on the left at his desk, looks over his shoulder and gives instructions to two thuggish bailiffs who carry bundles of writs. 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: 247 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1935,0522.1.103
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 67.

This is probably a republished state of a plate published initially by Carington Bowles. See also the reduced variant version in the same direction, published by Carington Bowles (2010,7081.1642)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-103
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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