Rob thief, or, The pilferers in masquerade [graphic].

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Title: Rob thief, or, The pilferers in masquerade [graphic].
Alternative Title: Pilferers in masquerade
Published / Created: [1768]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved.
Publication date in Stephens: October 10, 1768, i.e., the date of the masquerade ball given by the King of Denmark.
Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 169.
Temporary local subject terms: Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Stealing -- Money: bags of money -- Medical: crutch -- Nooses -- Executioners: Jack Ketch -- Executions: reference to Tyburn -- Devil -- Masquerade: masks -- Frenchmen -- Pickpockets -- Reference to the theft of the Duke of Bedford's snuff-box at the King of Denmark masquerade.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ; Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 11.1 x 18.2 cm, on sheet 12 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1768
Periodical illustrations
Etchings England London 1768
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subjects: Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1768
England > London > 1768

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