A Passionate Prosecutor Gropper, William [1897-1977]. Prosecutor. c.1950s-1960s (1968?). 14" x 10" lithographic print (image size 12" x 7-1/2") with typed caption and penciled signature of William Gropper, professionally shrink-wrapped onto 14-1/2" x 10-1/2" foamcore board with hang tag. Light toning to margins, image vivid. $250. * This image of..... More
Objection! Gropper, William [1897-1977]. Objection. c.1950s-1960s (1968?). 14" x 10" lithographic print (image size 12" x 7-1/2") with typed caption and penciled signature of William Gropper, professionally shrink-wrapped onto 14-1/2" x 10-1/2" foamcore board with hang tag. Light toning and minor soiling to margins, image vivid. $250. * This image..... More
Thou Shalt Steal [Swift, Richard (fl.1765)]. Dick Swift Thieftaker of the City of London. Teaching His Son the Commandments. [London], 1765. 15-1/2" x 10" (image size 12-1/2" x 9") etching. Toning, light foxing and soiling, light edgewear and chipping not affecting image, small faint dampstain to lower right corner of..... More
c.1865 Carte-De-Visite of the Framers and Supporters of the 13th Amendment [Slavery]. [Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)]. [Carte-De-Visite of Lincoln, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, House Speaker Schuyler Colfax and the Members of Congress Who Framed and Supported the 13th Amendment to the Constitution]. New York: Powell & Co., 1865. 3-1/2" x 2-1/4"..... More
A Lawyer Leans on Coke Gropper, William [1897-1977]. Coke Said... c.1950s-1960s (1968?). 14-1/4" x 8-3/4" lithographic print (image size 12" x 7-1/2") with typed caption and penciled signature of William Gropper, professionally shrink-wrapped onto 15" x 10-1/2" foamcore board with hang tag. Light toning to margins, image vivid. $250. *..... More
"Brothers in Law" Dighton, Robert [1752-1814]. Iohn Doe & Rich.d Roe. Brothers in Law. [London]: Robert Dighton, November 6, 1796. 10" x 8" hand-colored etching, image size, including caption, 8" x 6." Moderate toning light soiling, crease to lower-right corner, colors vivid. $500. * "Two men, wearing patched and ragged..... More
"A Brow-Beater Badger'd" [Williams, Charles (d.1830)]. Counsellor Nodee, Or, A Brow-Beater Badger'd. [London]: [Thomas Tegg], No. 111 Cheapside, [c.1812]. 9-1/2" x 13" hand-colored etching backed onto 10" x 13" sheet. Light soiling to margins of sheet, margins of etching trimmed to edges of image, colors vivid. $750. * "A scene..... More
Examination Time! Barrere, Adrien [1877-1931]. [Daumier, Honore (1808-1879)]. Passing the Bar. [Paris/New York: Sidney Z. Lucas, c.1930]. 11-1/2" x 23-1/4" color etching on upper half of 19-3/4" x 25-1/2" sheet, small line-drawing and four 3-1/2" x 3-1/2" black-and-white reproductions of lithographs below. Negligible light toning, faint dampstain to right-hand margin..... More
"I Am Now Very Busy" [Manuscript]. Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. [Sewall, Samuel E. (1799-1888)]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, Salem, MA, June 9, 1829]. Single-page letter on 10" x 8" sheet and 9-1/2" x 7" engraved portrait of Story in judicial attire in attractively matted and glazed 13-3/4" x 19-1/4" frame. Moderate toning..... More
Print Commemorating an Event that Led to the Glorious Revolution Gole, Jacob [1660-1724], Engraver. De Seven Bisschoppen van Engeland. Amsterdam: [Published by P. Savoret and Jacob Gole], 1689. 18-3/4" x 14-1/2" Mezzotint broadside, image size 14-3/4" x 11." Faint horizontal crease through center, light soiling to lower-right corner. $750. *..... More
Satirical French Courtroom Image [France]. L'Incidente. N.p.: De L'Editrice P.V., c.1900-10. Attractively glazed and matted 13" x 8-1/2" colored lithograph in handsome 21-1/4" x 16-3/4" wooden frame, small brass plaque to center of bottom. Light toning to margins, vivid image. $650. * A rather grotesque, and rather funny, image of..... More
"Well Friend, Where A'You Going, Hay?" Gillray, James [1756-1815]. Affability. [London: Hannah Humphrey, c. 1795]. 13-1/4" x 9-1/4" hand-colored etching and aquatint (measured to plate marks) on wove paper, without watermark, attractively mounted and matted. Light even toning to margins. A good impression with vivid colors. $950. * "The King..... More
"Swamped in the Flood of New-Taxes" Gillray, James [1756-1815]. A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain, Or, John Bull Swamped in the Flood of New-Taxes: Cormorants Fishing in the Stream. London: Hannah Humphrey, May 9, 1806. 8-3/4" x 14" hand-colored etching (measured to plate marks) on wove paper, without watermark..... More
Impressive Caricature of One of the Great American Lawyer-Statesmen of the Nineteenth Century Wust, Theodore [1853-1915]. [Evarts, William M. (1818-1901)]. [Caricature of Evarts]. [New York Daily Graphic, 1874]. 14-1/4" x 11-1/4" caricature clipped the front page of an 1874 issue of the New York Daily Graphic mounted on 21" x...... More
Frankfurter Letter to a Distinguished Lawyer Concerning Alger Hiss [Manuscript]. Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. [Stryker, Lloyd Paul (1885-1955)]. [Typed Letter, Signed (With Full Signature), On U.S. Supreme Court Letterhead, Washington, DC, November 29, 1950]. Single-page letter on 10" x 8" sheet and 7"x 5" portrait photograph of Frankfurter in judicial attire..... More
"A Peep Into the Court of Kings Bench" Dighton, Robert (Senior) [1752-1814]. Term Time or The Lawyers All Alive in Westminster Hall. [London, 1795]. Glazed and attractively matted 13-3/8" x 9-7/8" watercolor and pen and black ink on laid paper, signed, numbered and captioned on bottom margin, in handsome 24"..... More
Handsome Engraved Image of Vinson Vinson, Fred M. [1890-1953]. [Engraved Image of Vinson] N.p: S.n., c. 1950. 4-1/2" x 3-3/4" steel-plate engraving (measured to plate marks), mounted and matted, acetate overlay to image. Light soiling and minor edgewear to matte, image clean. $35. * Vinson was chief justice of the..... More
"That Scar Was Won by a Slave" Kemble, E[dward] W[indsor] [1861-1933]. "Look!" He Cried, "And Bless the Sight, For that Scar was Won by a Slave." [New York], September 1887. Attractively glazed and matted 10-1/2" x 8-1/2" pen-and-ink drawing in handsome 16" x 14-1/2" wooden frame. A few minor nicks..... More
A Philadelphia Lawyer Who Served as Pennsylvania's Deputy Attorney General [American School, 19th Century]. [Smith, Lewis Waln (1846-1881)]. [Portrait of Lewis Waln Smith]. Philadelphia, c.1870. 24" x 30" (image size). Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame. Some minor nicks and chips to frame, gilding slightly dulled, otherwise..... More
A Notable Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Lawyer and Democratic Politician [American School, 19th Century]. [Hirst, William L. (1804-1876)]. [Portrait of William L. Hirst]. 31-1/4" x 39-1/2" (image size). Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame. Some minor nicks and chips to frame, gilding slightly dulled, otherwise fine. $3,500. * Hirst..... More
Impressive Portrait of Chief Justice Taney [Healy, George P.A. (1813-1894), After]. [Taney, Roger Brooke (1777-1864)]. [Portrait of Roger Brooke Taney]. 40-3/4" x 33" (image size). N.p., n.d. Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame, plaque reading "Rodger [sic] Brooke Taney/ Nat 1813-Ob 1864 / Chief Justice of the..... More
Portrait of a Prominent Philadelphia Lawyer-Politician by a Notable Female Artist Waugh,Ida [1846-1919]. [Haly, William Worthington (1805-1851)]. [Portrait of William Worthington Haly]. Philadelphia, n.d. 30" x 25" (image size), signed "Ida Waugh, 1889" in lower right corner. $5,000. Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame, plaque reading "William..... More
An Important Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania Jurist [American School, 19th Century]. [Troubat, Francis Joseph (1802-1868)]. [Portrait of Francis Joseph Troubat]. Philadelphia?, c.1837. 29" x 24-1/4" (image size). Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame, small plaque reading "Francis J. Troubat/ Born 1802-Died 1868" to head of frame. Some minor nicks..... More
A Great Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania Jurist [American School, 19th Century]. [Read, John Meredith (1797-1874)]. [Portrait of John Meredith Read]. Philadelphia, c.1815. 25" x 20" (image size). Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame. Some minor nicks and chips to frame, gilding slightly dulled, otherwise fine. $3,000. * Read was..... More
A Distinguished Politician and Jurist in Maryland and Pennsylvania Neagle, John [1796-1865] [Peale, Rembrandt (1778-1860), After]. [Tilghman, William (1756-1827)]. [Portrait of William Tilghman]. Philadelphia, c. 1815. 29" x 24" (image size). Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame, small plaque reading "William Tilghman/ Chief Justice of Penna. 1806-1827/..... More