"A Flat Between Two Sharps" And "A Sharp Between Two Flats" Rare Pair Of 18th.Century Mezzotint Engravings Depicting Lawyers And Their Clients Circa.1790

"A Flat Between Two Sharps" And "A Sharp Between Two Flats" Rare Pair Of 18th.Century Mezzotint Engravings Depicting Lawyers And Their Clients Circa.1790"A Flat Between Two Sharps" and "A Sharp Between Two Flats" Rare Pair of hand coloured mezzotint engravings after Dighton. Depicting Lawyers and their clients. Printed by Bowles & Carver, Presented in their original frames, 32. 4 x 24. 7cms. Circa. 1790 Satires on the law: In "A Flat Between Two Sharps" a bemused client is shown scratching his head standing between a solicitor and a barrister in front of Westminster Hall; the solicitor, on the left,

Stylistically his work shows the influence of the Carracci and Guido Reni whose Bologna studio he joined in 1634

Watercolour on ivory

Century Mezzotint Engravings By JJ Haid et Fils

in order to live with her legal father Molé

29 by 19 by 19 cms

sua si bona norint Agricolas: Virg Georg

he also worked as a decorative painter in the interior design schemes of belle epoque theatres and restaurants

John Cox Dillman Engleheart 1784–1862

Published 1742

showing a total of 261 works up until his death in 1821

Signed G Di Rosso Architt:o

33 by 23 cms