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Robert Dighton
1752-1814
A lawyer & his client
hand colored etching
plate mark: 276 x 213 mm; sheet: 284 x 219 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1952
Published:
[London] : Pubd by Dighton, Spring Gardens. May. 1812, May 1812.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Lettered with title and publication line "Pubd by Dighton, Spring Gardens. May. 1812."
Summary:
A stout lawyer puts his left arm across the shoulders of a lean and distraught client, gripping him with a sinister show of affection, while he scrutinizes his face with the calculating smile of false friendship. He takes a sheaf of 'One' pound notes from his victim's hand. The lawyer is fashionably dressed; a brief-bag is slung from his arm. The client wears old-fashioned dress; his shoes are distended by bunions.
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