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The court of equity or a convivial city meeting   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Robert Laurie

After: Robert Dighton
Published by: John Smith of Cheapside
Title
The court of equity or a convivial city meeting
Description
English: Proof before letters. The interior of a club room at the Globe in Fleet Street, showing the left and back walls. Along the walls are oblong tables, behind which most of fifteen guests are seated. The chairman (left) is seated in an ornate chair between two windows, the chair ornamented with a coat of arms which is repeated in a frame above his head: above a chevron is a punch-bowl with bottle and glass, below, a pair of scales. The motto, which enlaces two cornucopias, is "Mirth with Justice". Five other framed coats of arms, probably those of similar clubs, and an ornate candle sconce decorate the back wall. 1779
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Depicted people Representation of: Mr Clark
Date 1779
date QS:P571,+1779-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 361 millimetres
Width: 433 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1924,0512.17
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) The persons are well-characterized portraits. The chairman is 'Hurford, the Guildhall orator' (William Hurford, Deputy of Castlebaynard Ward). On his r., and on the extreme l. are Wright, distiller in Fleet Street, and Hamilton, clerk to William Woodfall, printer, holding the 'Morning Chronicle'. Opposite the latter sits Smith the printseller. On the chairman's l. are (l. to r.), Lamb, silversmith in Fetter Lane; Clark, sausage maker; Stephenson, an attorney; Clark, a bricklayer in Shoe Lane; Russell, a broker of Harp-Alley; Good, the auctioneer; Thorn; Dighton, the artist, on the extreme r. In the foreground (r.) by a small table sits Dighton's father; between the two Dightons is a man reading the 'Morning Post'. In front of him and facing the chairman stands Towse of Vauxhall, speaking, pipe in his l. hand, r. hand thrust in his waistcoat. Pipes, glasses, pots, papers of tobacco, and a punch-bowl are on the tables. Tom Thorpe, of the Globe Tavern, advances in the middle of the room, carrying a punch-bowl. For the convivial tavern-clubs of the period see Brasbridge, 'Fruits of Experience', 1824, pp. 33 ff. He enumerates habitues of the Globe Tavern in Fleet Street who include Archibald Hamilton the printer "with a mind fit for a Lord Chancellor", and William Woodfall. Thorpe, a Deputy Alderman, keeper of the Globe, was "too convivial and too liberal to make it anything but a losing concern". Reproduced, A. E. Richardson, 'Georgian England', 1931, p. 22.

Chaloner Smith, ii, p. 803.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1924-0512-17
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