"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.
Watermark: J Ruse 1799.
Provenance
Walter Schatzki; January 1964;
Extent
1 print : plate mark 25.4 x 20.5 cm, on sheet 26 x 21 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
801.11.18.01

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)
15813521

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