Woodward (George Moutard) After.

a circular legal satire depicting an elderly Justice in clerical garb, sitting with his bandaged gouty leg resting on a stool and a crutch under a bandaged arm, before him stands an apologetic figure pleading his innocence, between them stand a smartly dressed clerk and the presumed victim of the assault with a bandaged head. The dialogue is played out in verse below, where the defendant is named ‘The Clown’ who pleads retaliation in defence of his pride at having been first punched by the injured victim, a course of action he believes the Justice, whom he addresses as ‘your Reverend Worship’, would have followed in the same position. The Justice agrees and dismisses him on payment of the warrant,

stipple-engraving by Richard Cooper II with original hand-colouring, 380 x 275 mm. (15 x 10 7/8 in), faint browning, [BM Satires 6878],