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Robert, 1788-1850, former owner Peel
A hit at the bar
Published
[England] : [publisher not specified], [179-?]
etching, hand colored
image: 170 x 110 mm; plate mark: 218 x 137 mm; sheet: 188 x 126 mm
Peel 2548
Notes
Title from caption below image.
Print evidently inspired by an anecdote, current as early as 1790, concerning the lawyer John ("Jack") Jack Lee (1733-1793) of the Northern circuit and Mary Pritchard of Barnsley, the dialogue being repeated almost verbatum in published accounts from the late 18th century.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Print evidently inspired by an anecdote, current as early as 1790, concerning the lawyer John ("Jack") Jack Lee (1733-1793) of the Northern circuit and Mary Pritchard of Barnsley, the dialogue being repeated almost verbatum in published accounts from the late 18th century.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Print shows a courtroom where a young woman stands at right before a a lawyer, at left, and two judges seated behind the court bench in the immediate background. The lawyer addresses the woman: "Well Mary if I may credit what I hear, I may venture to address you by the name of Black Moll?"; to which the woman replies: "Faith you may Master Lawyer, for I am always called so by the Blackguards."
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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