"George Smith (left) stands in profile to the right holding his hat, gazing fixedly at Deacon Brodie (right), who stands almost full-face looking to the front. Smith's clothes are out at elbows. Brodie is well dressed, wearing a cocked hat, a seal hangs from his fob, he holds a tasselled cane. Beside him are (left) a spurred game-cock and a dog, whose fierce-looking head appears on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Print numbered '106' in lower right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Brodie, William, 1741-1788, and Smith, George, -1788,
After page 21. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"James Maclaine, the gentleman highwayman, full-length standing against a plain background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved at bottom of image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0308.408., "Publish'd according to act of Parl.", Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of text from bottom of plate. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted to 37 x 26 cm., and Bound in before page 26 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray.
Portrait of the highwayman and Royalist James Hind; half length, turned slightly left; in an oval
Alternative Title:
True portraiture of Captain James Hind
Description:
Title etched below image., "From a scarce print in the collection of Mr. Bull"--Below title., and Copy of a woodcut from 1651; cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 530, no. 2.
"Portrait caricature of the murderer Thomas Simmons, a young man in shackles; whole length, standing in prison yard in profile to right, hand in pocket of coat; five prisoners standing, sitting and conversing in front of cells behind; after a drawing by Angelo."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 29 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
T. Rowlandson
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Simmons, Thomas, -1808 and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Prisons, Murder, Criminals, Prisoners, and Shackles
Leaf 65. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait caricature of the murderer Thomas Simmons, a young man in shackles; whole length, standing in prison yard in profile to right, hand in pocket of coat; five prisoners standing, sitting and conversing in front of cells behind; after a drawing by Angelo."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0308.577., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 81-2., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 109., and On leaf 65 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
"Portrait caricature of the murderer Thomas Simmons, a young man in shackles; whole length, standing in prison yard in profile to right, hand in pocket of coat; five prisoners standing, sitting and conversing in front of cells behind; after a drawing by Angelo."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; 243 x 158 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom.
Publisher:
T. Rowlandson
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Simmons, Thomas, -1808 and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Prisons, Murder, Criminals, Prisoners, and Shackles