The Bench (BM S,2.139) - Public domain portrait engraving

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The Bench (BM S,2.139) - Public domain portrait engraving

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Four bewigged judges, three of whom are asleep, seated on the bench in Westminster Hall; at the top, eight caricatured heads, two representing one of the judges below, the others, two versions of the lame man in Raphael's Sacrifice at Lystra (extreme left) and apostles in Leonardo's Last Supper; below, lengthy text on a separate plate; fifth state. 1758, published after Hogarth's death in 1764
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1800
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British Museum
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