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Stan Washburn (American, b. 1943)

Lawyer, from the series A Moral Alphabet of Vice and Folly

Date: 1984
Medium: Etching
Object Dimensions: 16 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (41.28 x 37.47 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2002.008.01.13
Photo Credit: Jueqian Fang
A Lawyer, newly arrived in Hell, discovered that his punishment was to declaim endlessly to a jury of imbeciles and a sleeping judge. “Except for the food,” he thought, “I would never have known I had died.”
Moral: Look around you.

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