Devils - angling for lawyers!!!

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 · March 25, 1800

A group of lawyers, six seated, two standing, all old, ugly, and caricatured. Above their heads devils with fishing-rods lean over a high barrier or wall, dangling baits. One lawyer, younger and less ugly than the rest, has swallowed a bait and is being drawn upwards, his wig falling off. The others wait with feigned unconsciousness, or gape for the bait. One man (left) studies a paper (BM).