Tuesday 5 August 2008

'Attorney and Client, fortitude and impatience' - Phiz

This classic illustration of the relationship between attorney and client comes from Charles Dickens's classic portrayal of lawyerly fortitude in pursuit of their clients' fortunes, Bleak House.

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'Phiz' was the pen name of one Hablot Knight Brown (1815-1882), one of  the best of Dickens's many illustrators.  

2 comments:

justinraine said...

Always picking on the lawyers....

:-(

Peter Cresswell said...

It's not me, Justin, it's Dickens. :-P