Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 10 June 1774]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 111. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on an unlucky gambler: a man standing facing to left looking dejected with his hands in his breeches pockets and a riding whip under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state, before publication line added and before additional drypoint shading. For a later state with the publication line "Publish'd 10th June 1774", see no. 4720 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted on page 111 of: Bunbury album.
Caption title., First line: John Stacey, aged 21, and John Stacey his father, were indicted for the wilful murder ..., Printed in two columns. With woodcut illustration at top illustrating the scene of the execution which took place on the day of the Magdalen Hill Fair, Winchester, in front of a crowd. With a poem at the end "Mournful copy of verses": Come all ye youths of Britains Isle, and listen unto me, Take warning by my sad downfall, my evil destiny ..., John Stacey junior was convicted for the robbery and violent murder of Mr. Langtree and his housekeeper (and niece) Charity Jolliffe at their house in Portsmouth. This broadside offers the evidence of Ann Dyatt and James Hendy, who discovered the bodies, together with that of Mr. George Martell, surgeon, who examined the bodies. No evidence as to how Stacey was convicted is offered, but he, together with his father, both confessed to their crime. Stacey junior, who committed the murders, was executed; Stacey Senior, who was present during the crime, was sentenced to transportation., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Catnach, 7, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
England, Portsmouth., and Winchester.
Subject (Name):
Stacey, John, -1829.
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Thieves, Murder, Executions and executioners, and Hangings (Executions)
"Broadside with four columns of prose and three woodcuts, one along the top with a line of 19 hanged persons, and in the centre two scenes, one of a man slitting the throat of a boy, the other of a man in prison surrounded by his weeping family."--British Museum online catalogue and "The text describes 14 different cases heard in April 1827, that resulted in the hanging of the person found guilty. None of the cases seems to have any relation to the two scenes in the woodcuts."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Caption title., First lines: Execution of Richard Thomas, for murder. Richard Thomas was indicted for the muder of Mary Ann Matilda Taylor ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Catnach, printer, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Executions and executioners, Hangings (Executions), Homicides, Prisoners, and Cells (Rooms & spaces)
BEIN Ik G252 727f Copy 1: No. 1 of 2 works bound together with binder's title: Gay's Fables., BEIN Ik G252 727f 1 Copy 2: Bound to match Ik G252 727f 2. Bookplate: Moreau Delano. Autograph: Margt. Lesjat [?]., Engraved vignette on title-page and at head of each fable., Engraved portrait of Gay inserted as frontispiece., Signatures: [A]⁴ B-N⁸ O⁴., and Final p. blank.
LWL 55 G25 738: Bookplates: Charles Languet Higgins, Turvey Abbey, 1874 (pictorial); Philip Hofer., LWL 55 G25 738: Gift of Mr Hofer [to Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, 9 July 1964], with the 4th ed. of volume I., BEIN Ik G252 727f Copy 1: No. 2 of 2 works bound together with binder's title: Gay's Fables., In verse., All published?, The illustrations are by G. Scotin, after H. Gravelot., and Signatures: pi² a² B-K⁸ L⁴ M².
Facing Almack's. EO table, No. 81 Pall Mall, for gold and silver and Facing Almack's. Even Odd table, No. 81 Pall Mall, for gold and silver
Description:
Title from item., Engraved text framed by a decorative border., Printed trade card advertising gambling at an EO table., Questionable date based on James Graham's tenure in the building., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., Date based on publisher John Pitts's street address. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 151., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: Faint and wearily the way-worn traveller ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Pitts, 14, Great Saint Andrew Street, Seven Dials