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This page represents most of our collection of original Antique Medical, Legal and Finance prints. Please click on an image to see it in high-resolution, with details of the work itself. For enquiries and purchases, please do contact us

London Stock Exchange: Being “Hammered”.

Cartoon: He’s not the kind of husband I’m accustomed to.

Bank of England: South view.

‘The Recorder’: Sir James Fulton, Recorder of London. SPY.

Pathology: Apotheosis of Hippocrates. Hippocrates holds the Patera of Health and Staff of Aesculapius. Hygeia strews medicinal flowers whilst Apollo shoots the Python of Pestilence.

Credit: Letterpress sample with the motto of the City Domine dirige nos (Lord guide us)

Nine portraits of barristers’ stances.

Hydrophobia (Rabies). Louis Pasteur after Theobaed Chartran.

‘Master of the Knife’. Royal Surgeon Sir Alfred Fripp.

The Old Fashioned Judge. Baron Ludlow of Heywood, Lord Justice of Appeal. QUIZ

That won’t do, you know! Sir Lewis William Cave, Justice of the Queen’s Bench. SPY

Right Hon. Baron Alverstone. Lord Chief Justice of England.

Nine portraits of characters in the courtrooms.

Merchandize: Letterpress sample with the HMS Nonsuch that voyaged between England and Hudson Bay in 1668.

Industry: Letterpress sample

Business: Letterpress sample with ships unloading beneath the motto Sine his nihil (Without these there is nothing).

Savings Investment & Banking Corporation Ltd. 100 shares.

Cartoon. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.

The Irish Lawyer. Lord Morris of Spiddal, Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench for Ireland. STUFF

St Thomas’s Hospital: View over the Lambeth Palace Gardens at St. Thomas’s Hospital with the Houses of Parliament.

Law: Allegory of Wisdom (Minerva), Experience (Aged man) Authority with Mace of Power, Obedience kneeling, Respect standing at a distance with Union of Justice, with her symbols, and Mercy, with olive of peace, poppy of oblivion, treading on the instruments of punishment.

3rd Commissioner: Red Robed Judge. Sir Archibald Levin Smith. SPY

Royal Exchange: Three perspectives. The Interior, the North entrance and as it was when built by Sir Thomas Gresham in 1571.

Portrait: Oxford University: Student in Civil Law.

Commerce: Letterpress sample with merchants unfurling a bill of lading.

Cartoon: The physician heals himself.

Claimant’s Counsel. Edward Vaughan Keneally, best known for his defence of the claimant to the Tichborne estate. SPY

Bank of England: Private Banking Department. Interior Scene.

The New Law Courts. View from the Strand at the front elevation of the Royal Courts of Justice.

Middle and Inner Temple: Bird’s eye view from the Thames to Temple church.

Inns of Court: Aerial view over the Temple and courts of Justice. With text.

Promissory Notes: Letterpress sample with notes being drawn up and an ink well with quills.

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children: Exterior view.

Contempt of Court. The Hon. Sir James Bacon, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Judge in Bankruptcy.

Royal Exchange and the Bank of England: View from Mansion House.

Celebrated libel case of Charles Adams v his father in law, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, and brother in law following his elopement.

London Stock Exchange: Pillars of the City.

Stock Exchange: ‘Pillars of the City’, scene with prominent stockbrokers.

The Law. Sir George Jessel, Master of the Rolls and member of the Privy Council.

Doctors in Labour: Satire of the celebrated case of Mary Toft, who convinced several eminent physicians she had given birth to rabbits.

Five vignettes of a day in the Lord Chief Justice’s court.

John Law: Scottish economist responsible for the Mississippi Bubble.

St Bartholomew’s Hospital North Wing: New library and museum.

A Little Lush. Sir Robert Lush, bencher of Gray’s Inn and Justice of the Queen’s Bench. SPY.

Royal College of Surgeons: Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

‘Specific Performance’. Sir Edward Fry QC. SPY.

Malaria – Tertiana: Epidemiological chart of Malaria

Portia of the Courts: Georgina Weldon successfully sued numerous persons including her husband and her doctor whilst representing herself, and over 20 years brought over a 100 cases to the court. Portia is in reference to the heroine of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. SPY.

A Risen Barrister. Sir John Coleridge, Chief Justice of Common Pleas. ARG

Portrait: Oxford University. Bachelor of Laws (Civil and Common Law).

Middle Temple: New library and Parliament chambers.

Baccarat Case: Sketches in the Court Room of the celebrated case of Sir Gordon-Cumming, accused of cheating at cards with the Prince of Wales amongst others.

‘Steady going’: Justice Sir Matthew Joyce. SPY.

Visualisation of the new Law Courts, designed by Edmund George Street. Building commenced in 1873 and the Courts of Justice were completed in1882.

Merchants: Of great benefit to the public. Letterpress sample beneath a chest of foreign riches.

London Stock Exchange: Satirical map depicting the major trading sectors including Oil, Insurance, Rubber, Tea, and Railways.

‘His father invented Pickwick’ Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, KC, son of Charles Dickens. SPY.

Doorway Temple Church. Frontispiece. “London. As It Is. Drawn and lithographed by Thomas Shotter Boys. 90 Great Portland Street” graffiti’d onto the wall right of the doorway by three young children. Finished with hand colouring.

Her Majesty’s Judges in Ireland, 1891. Showing leading judges from all three divisions of the High Court.

Bank of England: Looking towards the Mansion House. View of the South side of St Bartholomew Lane looking West. To the right of Mansion House is the spire of St Antholin, Budge Row.

Middle and Inner Temple: View of the buildings in 1720.

St Thomas’s Hospital: Looking over the Thames to Westminster.

Matrimonial Causes. Sir Francis Jeune, judge in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court. STUFF

London: Stock Market: ‘Well-Known Faces in the Consol Market’.

High Treason Trial of Colonel Arthur Lynch.