Lord Justice Rigby ('Mr Solicitor')

Signed Stuff — the pseudonym of Henry Charles Seppings Wright — this chromolithograph caricatures Sir Joseph Rigby QC MP, then Solicitor-General, under the caption 'Mr Solicitor.' The composition is a profile study in the magazine's established idiom: a rotund, prosperous figure in tan overcoat and gleaming top hat, grey-bearded and self-satisfied, clutches a heavy leather bag while an umbrella juts rakishly from behind. The exaggerated girth and florid complexion were standard visual shorthand for comfortable Establishment success — no ethnic caricature is present. Rigby, a Liberal lawyer who rose to the Court of Appeal, is rendered as the archetypal professional man-of-affairs: competent, well-fed, and quietly pleased with himself.