Plate 10: above the design: 'french habits, n° 10'. Nicholls, m. P. For tregony, sits in an arm-chair directed to the left; in his right hand is a tall staff in whose head is an eye; his left hand is thrust under his coat, which is buttoned. From a tricolour ribbon round his neck is suspended a small metal olive-branch. He wears his ordinary dress, his shrunken legs in wide half-boots. The portrait shows the notoriously ugly nicholls, with his left eye closed, a projecting lower jaw, his upper lip drawn up in a permanent snarl. He sits on a square dais covered with a flowered carpet. Behind is a wall of heavy blocks of stone, in which (above his head) is a niche. In this stands a statue of justice, her eyes covered by a bonnet-rouge, her scales and sword held up aggressively. 21 may 1798
hand-coloured etching. Date: 1798. Dimensions: Height: 262 mm; Width: 193 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: John Nicholls. Collection: British Museum. Juge de Paix (BM 1868,0808.6734)
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