The expense of lawyers mb-width 5074 Greenwich Pensioner flanked by a

Greenwich Pensioner flanked by a man and a woman

The composer seated at the piano represents George Frederic Handel

View of the Monument in remembrance of the Great Fire of London in 1666

London and part of St Bartholomew's Hospital

with some in the foreground who may be mud-larking - looking for anything washed up by the tide that they might use or sell

The expense of lawyers mb-width 5074 Greenwich Pensioner flanked by aThe expense of lawyers, 1770. A smug lawyer in a lace shirt about to eat an oyster while giving a half shell to two miserable looking men; a reference to the high cost of legal fees. Behind are legal books, documents and quill pens.