Doctors' Commons Illustration

A colour illustration of a large hall with flagstone floor. Three groups of men and ladies stand or sit around the edges of the room. They face a set of three archways beyond which is an ante-chamber flooded with light from large windows behind. Through the central archway is a horseshoe shaped bench. Stairs leading to the bench are set within the smaller archways to either side. A judge sits at the head of the bench beneath the Royal coat of arms with six men dressed in red and wearing wigs to either side. There is a large desk set within the bench, around which ten men in black robes and white stoles are sat. A man in plain clothes leans against the desk. The room is decorated with insignia and wooden panelling.

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Title

Doctors' Commons Illustration

Subject

illustration
court
Doctors' commons

Description

An illustration of proceedings at Doctors' Commons

Creator

Ackermann, Rudolph
Pyne, W. H.
Combe, William
Pugin, Augustus Charles
Rowlandson, Thomas

Source

The British Library [C.194.b.305-307]

Publisher

Ackermann, Rudolph

Date

1808-1810

Rights

You may use this image in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Format

image/jpg

Language

English

Identifier

C.194.b.305-307

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

colour illustration

Collection

Private collections

Citation

Ackermann, Rudolph et al., “Doctors' Commons Illustration,” The Dickens Code, accessed July 19, 2025, https://dickenscode.omeka.net/items/show/28.

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