Beschreibung:

Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) Term time or The lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall, pen and black ink with watercolour, on laid paper, signed and title inscribed below, numbered '557', 340 x 250 mm. (13 3/8 x 9 7/8 in), under glass, minor surface dirt, framed, [1795]. Provenance: Sale. Christie's, British Drawings and Watercolours, 7th April 1992, lot 125; Sale. Christie's, British Art on Paper, 17th November 2005, lot 50; Ex-collection of David Padbury Literature: Padbury, The Dighton family, their times, caricatures and portraits, 2007, illus. p. 39, and described p. 82 ⁂ 'Three judges preside over lawyers who jabber among themselves. No interest is taken in clients and it is impossible to say if one is actually present... Meanwhile the jury of five men sit in their box exhibiting at least one deficiency each: they appear to be individually deaf, blind, asleep, dumb and sick in their head.' [Padbury op. cit. p. 39]