Judge in wig and round glasses drawing straws to settle a dispute between two lawyers. The Judge of Mesle. Le Juge de Mesle. Lithograph handcoloured in pochoir (stencil) after an illustration by Charles Martin from Jean de la Fontaine’s Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, Tales and Novellas in Verse, Libraire de France, Paris, 1930.

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