The highwayman Maclaine is shown holding a pistol at a man who leans out the window of his carriage. His accomplice restrains the driver who rides the horses, whip in hand. On the right in the distance, an innkeeper stands outside the door of his tavern under a sign and holds out a mug to two customers on horseback
Description:
Title from caption etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 'Pr. 6d. plain & 1sh. colour'd.', Eight lines of description below image: Maclaine is said to be born in the north of Ireland, of Scotch parents, is a tall genteel young fellow, and commonly very gay in his dress ..., and Watermark: Britannia.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, Augst. 13th 1750, & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Maclaine, James, 1724-1750. and Eglinton, Alexander Montgomerie, Earl of, 1723-1769.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Criminals, Taverns (Inns), and Robberies
Elizabeth Jeffryes and John Swan condemned at Chelmsford-Assizes
Description:
"John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffryes in their cell at Chelmsford prison; he is wearing shackles, standing to front, with head turned to look to left, hands clasped; she is seated to left with her right elbow on a table, on which lie open book, bottle and glass, supporting her face; probably frontispiece to the sitter's Life and Trial"--British Museum online catalogue., Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Two columns of verse below title: Behold two wretches here replete with guilt! Lamenting sorely for the blood they spilt ...
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parlt., 1752, & sold by the printsellers of London & Westminster
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Swan, John, -1752. and Jeffryes, Elizabeth, -1752.
publish'd according to the act of Parliam[...] [not before 1738]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Portrait of Elizabeth Adams, three-quarter length, seated to left, holding a notebook titled "Repenting sins", shown with both hands on her lap, wearing bonnet and plain dress. Adams was a criminal who was hanged for robbery in 1738. Resemblance to a figure in William Hogarth's Harlot's Progress, plate 6; and tentatively attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of the end of the publication statement., and On page 63 in volume 1. Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand beneath print: See Nichols's Book, 3d edit. p. 194.
Portrait of John ('Jack') Sheppard, three-quarter length in prison cell, seated to left with hands in chains and head turned to right; wearing plain coat and necktie, his hair cut short; after Thornhill. Sheppard was a notorious thief who was famous for his daring escapes from multiple prisons in London
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 31 x 25 cm.
Three-quarter length portrait of John Bellingham, assassin of the Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, standing in profile to the right, holding an open letter in his left hand and his right hand on the rail
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher identified as Robert Dighton in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0308.103., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Leaf 15 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bellingham, John, 1770-1812,, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812., and Bellingham, John, 1770-1812.
Subject (Topic):
Assassins, Prisoners, Trials (Murder), Assassinations, Criminals, and Judicial proceedings
Three-quarter length portrait of John Bellingham, assassin of the Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, standing in profile to the left, holding an open letter in his right hand and his left hand on the rail
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably an Irish copy in reverse of: John Bellingham taken at the Sessions House, Old Bailey ... / drawn & etc'd by Dennes [sic] Dighton. [London] : Pubd. as the act directs by Dighton, Spring Gardens, May 16, 1812. Cf. No. 11882 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 164.
Publisher:
Pub. by McCleary, 32 Nassau St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bellingham, John, 1770-1812
Subject (Topic):
Trials (Murder), Assassinations, Criminals, and Judicial proceedings
White, George, approximately 1684-1732, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[approximately 1724]
Call Number:
724.00.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of John Sheppard, highwayman and thief, seated three-quarter length in prison cell with hands in chains, head turned to right, towards window; wearing plain coat and necktie, his hair cut short; lettered state with Latin verses
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Final state of the plate, with Latin verses added below title; this represents the second state according to Smith, amended to the fifth state by Russell., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0308.593., "Price 1s."--Following imprint., and Mounted to 57 x 38.1 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, J. Bowles against Stocks Market, & Geo. White in Hart Street between [the] Church & Bloomsbury Markt
Sarah Malcolm, three-quarter length, turned to right but looking to left, her hands resting on a simple wooden table
Description:
Title etched below image., Pirated by an unknown printmaker; possibly the first state without the price added above image. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 129., Mounted on page 72 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
