Thomas Simmons the horrid and inhuman murderer of Mrs. Hummerstone and Mrs. Warner at the house of Mr. Boreham a Quaker at Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire on Tuesday evening, October the 20th, 1807 / [graphic]

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Lewis Walpole Library > Thomas Simmons the horrid and inhuman murderer of Mrs. Hummerstone and Mrs. Warner at the house of Mr. Boreham a Quaker at Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire on Tuesday evening, October the 20th, 1807 / [graphic]

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Title: Thomas Simmons the horrid and inhuman murderer of Mrs. Hummerstone and Mrs. Warner at the house of Mr. Boreham a Quaker at Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire on Tuesday evening, October the 20th, 1807 / [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Angelo, Henry, 1756-1835, artist.
Field & Tuer, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1868?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Field & Tuer
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.
On leaf 65 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Provenance: Gift of Addison Van Name to Yale University Library, 1919. Transferred from Yale University Library; November 1967.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.0 x 15.9 cm, on sheet 59 x 43 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title: Leaf 65. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Collection / Other Creator: Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900, collector.
Collection Date: [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Portrait prints
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1868
Restrikes
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Simmons, Thomas, -1808
Subject (Topic): Criminals
Prisoners
Prisons
Subjects: Simmons, Thomas, -1808 > Caricatures and cartoons
Criminals
Prisoners
Prisons
England > 1807
England > London > 1868

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 15547116
Object ID (OID): 17355996