"Don't tell me of Major Semple! Why Major Semple's no more to be compar'd to this here rascal, than I am, to my Lord Kenyon or Buonapartè!" [graphic]

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Title: "Don't tell me of Major Semple! Why Major Semple's no more to be compar'd to this here rascal, than I am, to my Lord Kenyon or Buonapartè!" [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [18 November 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publishd. Novr. 18th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
Abstract: "Bust portrait in an oval. Scarcely a caricature but a study in facial expression of a cornered swindler. A man, fashionably dressed, but with dishevelled hair, gazes fixedly to the left, with pursed mouth and wrinkled forehead. Below the design is a list of eight names ('alias' repeated seven times) beginning: 'Mr Thos Ogle (the Notorious Swindler) - by which Name he Married Two Wives', and ending: 'Vide - his Examinations before the Magistrates of Bow Street in Novr 1801'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from quotation etched above image.
Text below title: Townsend, Pole. Officer, Bow Street.
Temporary local subject terms: Swindler -- Thomas Ogle -- Major Semple -- William Smith -- Thomas Robison -- Batty -- Captain Johnson -- Thomas Bashford -- Robertson -- Lieut. Colt. Cs. Pullen.
1 print : etching, aquatint, & stipple engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 25.6 x 20.5 cm, on sheet 34.2 x 27.6 cm.
Watermark: J. Ruse.
Mounted on leaf 61 of volume 10 of 12.
Provenance: From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.4 x 20.5 cm, on sheet 26 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Auchincloss Gillray v. 10

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Portrait prints England 1801
Etchings England London 1801
Aquatints England London 1801
Stipple engravings England London 1801
Watermarks (Paper) J Ruse 1799
Watermarks (Paper) J. Ruse
Material: etching, aquatint, & stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1801
England > London > 1801
J Ruse > 1799
J. Ruse
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 8332679
Object ID (OID): 11861030