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The Lord Suckfist Pleaded Before Pantagruel

William Heath Robinson (1872-1944)

Price
£1,450
Signed
Signed and inscribed with title below mount
Medium
Ink
Dimensions
21 x 17 ½ inches
Illustrated
The Works of Mr Francis Rabelais, London: Grant Richards, 1904, Volume I, The Second Book, Chapter XI, page 220
Exhibited
'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration, 1800-1999', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, 1999, no 141;
'The Law Show', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, December 2023

In Rabelais' satirical novel Pantagruel, Lord Suckfist was the defendant who pleaded before Pantagruel in a highly complex legal case.

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