The annexed drawing is from one of the ten busts by Roubiliac in the Library of Trinity College. Upon the pedestal are these words:

E. Coke

Summus Judex

Posuit Comes Leicestriæ

1757.

It appears to have been presented in the same year in which it was executed, two years before the death of the donor who was fifth in descent from the judge and his last surviving descendant in the male line. It represents the Chief Justice with the coif of lawn or silk, the ermine tippet and gold collar of SS; which may by some be considered as justifying the remark of Allan Cunningham, “If Roubiliac's busts must be censured for any thing it is for excess of action and flutter of drapery.” Opposite stands the bust of his contemporary Sir Robert Cotton, the friend and patron of Camden and founder of the Cottonian Library.

In its representation of the features of Sir E. Coke, this bust most nearly resembles the engraved head by I. Payne, 1629; but Corn. Jansen's portrait, which represents him at a less advanced age, agrees better with Fuller's description of him—‘the Jewel of his Mind was put into a fair case, a beautiful body with a comely countenance.’