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The Country Attorney and his Clients.

The Country Attorney and his Clients. From the Original Picture painted by Hand Holbein, in the Collection fo Robert Bragg M.D. To Whom this Plate is Dedicated; By his most Obliged humble Servant, J. Boydell. Size of the Picture, 3F:3¾I by 4F:3I in Length. No.8.

Hans Holbein Pinxt. Anty. Walker delint. et Sculpsit.
Published according to Act of Parliament, by J. Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside, London: March 1st. 1764.
Engraving. Plate 430 x 539mm (17 x 21¼"), with wide margins.
An interior with shelves full of bonds and little sacks, piled up and hanging from hooks, all labelled, where an attorney sits at a desk covered with papers, reading a deed held in his left hand, holding out the other to receive a coin from an elderly man, who stands to left, hat in hand, leaning forwards attentively, watched by a young man, while a woman and two other men crowd curiously behing them and young boy acts as a clerk, sitting on the right. BM suggest "after a painting wrongly attributed to Holbein".
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38267]  £360.00


 

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