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Personifications of law, medicine and theology argue over the superiority of their respective professions. Engraving by GWHWHNM, ca. 1720.

A man standing in a law court vows to reform to temperance. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.

Country folk pushing a lawyer, a physician and a gouty vicar in wheelbarrows out of their village. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819.

A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.

The dance of death. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1808, after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1795/1797.

A doctor trying to sell youthfulness potions to an elderly lawyer. Lithograph.

A black man stands in the office of a white lawyer whose servant he is, while across the road is the pharmacy where he had previously been a servant. Engraving, 1805.

A dying man making his will to lawyers while a relative cries. Line engraving.

Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.

A solicitor and a barrister throw black paint or tar at a woman sitting at the feet of a statue of Justice. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1892.

A lawyer in his study. Engraving by W.H. Worthington after A. Ostade.

The lawyer Vholes advises Richard Carstone. Etching by Hablot K. Browne, 1853.

Oedipus lex : psychoanalysis, history, law / Peter Goodrich.

The Italian social fabric symbolised by a chain of social types, with all relations of dependence ultimately relating back to the devil. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, 1691.

A convicted thief stands on trial in a packed law court while his sister weeps. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

A man sitting in a chair, reading a document to another man who holds his hat in his lap. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.

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Lawyers

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Images referencing Lawyers

Works from the collections

Oedipus lex : psychoanalysis, history, law / Peter Goodrich.

The Italian social fabric symbolised by a chain of social types, with all relations of dependence ultimately relating back to the devil. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, 1691.

A convicted thief stands on trial in a packed law court while his sister weeps. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

A man sitting in a chair, reading a document to another man who holds his hat in his lap. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.

A solicitor and a barrister throw black paint or tar at a woman sitting at the feet of a statue of Justice. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1892.

Lawyers

Images from the collections

Images referencing Lawyers

Works from the collections

Oedipus lex : psychoanalysis, history, law / Peter Goodrich.

The Italian social fabric symbolised by a chain of social types, with all relations of dependence ultimately relating back to the devil. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, 1691.

A convicted thief stands on trial in a packed law court while his sister weeps. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

A man sitting in a chair, reading a document to another man who holds his hat in his lap. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.

A solicitor and a barrister throw black paint or tar at a woman sitting at the feet of a statue of Justice. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1892.

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