Illustrations & portraits of lawyers and related “men of law.”

• A man and his lawyer pleading in front of a bishop, the Smithfield Decretals (Brit. Lib. 10 E IV, fol. 251r), c. 1300-1340
• A public trial, Justinian’s Digesta (BNF Latin 14341, fol. 231), c. 1330
• The Man of Law from the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, c. 1410; the illustrator follows Chaucer’s description in the prologue (“He rood but hoomly in a medlee cote / Girt with a ceint of silk, with barres smale”). See also Chaucer and Costume: The Secular Pilgrims in the General Prologue and Lawyers in Chaucer’s Time.
• A peasant laborer and a lawyer, De casibus (BNF 232, fol. 102), second quarter of the 15th century
• Dance of Death, a book of hours (PML M.359, fol. 133v), c. 1430-1435
• A courtroom, Decretales (Bibl. Mazarine 1331, fol. 121), c. 1470-1480
• The Judgment of Cambyses by Gerard David, 1498
• Andrea Fausti, lawyer for the Medici family
• Willibald Pirckheimer by Albrecht Dürer, 1503
• Bonifacius Amerbach by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1519
• Willibald Pirckheimer by Albrecht Dürer, 1524
• Medal depicting Amicus Taegius, c. 1529
• Court of Wards and Liveries, c. 1560-1580
• Viglius van Aytta by Frans Pourbus the Elder, c. 1562-1567
• Barnabé Brisson
• Portrait of a man holding a letter (“L’Avvocato”) by Giovanni Battista Moroni, c. 1570
• Dance of Death (British Library Huth.50.(63)), c. 1580
• Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert by Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, c. 1580-1600
• Trial of Mary, Queen of Scots (British Library Add. 48027, fol. 569), 1586