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A peep into Westminster Hall on a call of serjeants   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: Sayer & Bennett
Published by: John Smith of Cheapside
Title
A peep into Westminster Hall on a call of serjeants
Description
English: The interior of a panelled room. Two judges (right) sit side by side on a settee, in profile to the left, in their wigs and furred robes. On the left stand a number of barristers in wigs and gowns, one of whom (left) already wears the coif of the serjeant-at-law. Two barristers, one wearing the black patch of a serjeant, [The serjeants-at-law were a superior order of barrister (distinguished by wearing a white coif or cap with a black patch) from whom the judges were chosen. They were abolished in 1880.] appear to be acting as masters of the ceremonies, both hold papers. On the ground before the judges are two flat mattress-cushions, on one kneels a serjeant-elect, the judge is putting the coif on his head. Behind the judge stands a barrister grinning and looking through a single eye-glass. 1 March 1781
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Depicted people Representation of: Cranley Thomas Kirby
Date 1781
date QS:P571,+1781-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 236 millimetres
Width: 188 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
J,7.34
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) A note on an impression in the Ashmolean Museum identifies the judges as Mansfield and Loughborough.

On 8 February 1781 Cranley Thomas Kirby and Giles Rooke were admitted Serjeants. Haydn, 'Book of Dignities', p. 249. Beneath the design is engraved, "Esto Perpetua."
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-7-34
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