[Richardson (William) Publisher.]

satirical portrait of the 17th century lawyer and notorious gourmand, William Marriott, the verse continuing ‘Greyes-Innes Cormorant; Who for his Gutt is a meer Cheater: Those that will feed him Councell shall not want’. This is an early 19th century copy of an anonymous mid-17th century woodcut depicting the elderly lawyer, who had been admitted to Gray’s Inn in 1605 and died in 1653, carrying sheep’s heads, hearts and other offal while being pursued by two youths or young men of shorter stature, who gesture and wave at him,

engraving with original hand-colouring on chine appliqué, 170 x 125 mm. (6 3/4 x 5 in), trimmed within the plate mark with loss of publisher’s line, but well outside the image border and verse text, the blank lower right corner slightly lifting from the support sheet with a small loss and attendant minor creasing, [NPG D29219; for the original woodcut c.f. British Museum no. 1851,0308.431, BM Satires undescribed],