Simon Fraser, eleventh Lord Lovat (1667/8-1747), Jacobite conspirator, army officer, and outlaw is shown sitting on a chair in a jail cell (The Tower of London?), his gouty foot raised on a small stool. He has a pen in his hand and on the table beside him rests an open journal and a box with two ink pots
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Title from caption below image., Approximate date of publication from dealer's description., Six numbered stanzas of verse below title: I. When first the proud Scotchmen rebell'd ..., Text at bottom of plate: Tis conjectur'd by some that this rhetorical apology of old nurses will meet with the desired effect ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Full-length portrait of Matthew Hopkins, witch-finder who was later hanged as a sorcerer in 1647, looking left and shown wearing a hat and cloak, holding a walking stick in his right hand and standing next to a tree beside a foot path
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Title etched below image. and Plate from: The wonderful museum, 1792.
Title etched below image and two lines of verse., Publication date inferred from Overton's death date., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image and above title: Two men there are the inward & the out, whom Satan to insnare [sic] still hovereth about ..., Two lines of verse below title: Sing Whitfield and Webber, for ever and ever., Subject identified in a note in 18th-century hand at bottom of sheet as Rev. George Whitefield., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum., and Temporary local subject terms: Wall-eyed.