3-066-071 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Man of Law. by H. S. Marks, R.A., from the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1881. Engraving of a painting. '...Mr. H. S. Marks, R.A., has exerted his faculty of humorous and sympathetic perception of the main peculiarities of character belonging to special classes and kinds of people, whose human nature is "subdued to what it works in" by the habitual impressions and constant influences of their social condition and their ordinary pursuits. The costume is that of an early period of English history...The lawyer in this picture seems to be engaged in carefully scrutinising a legal document, whether or not one of his own concoction, to detect any possible flaw or fault in the writing'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.