A courtroom scene with solicitors and jury snickering and laughing in response to a witty pun the judge offered following the defendent's plea for mercy. The criminal on trial in the far right is dishevled and dressed in the style of a sailor. The judge, on the far left, wears a black and gold-trimmed robe and leans intensely over the bench glaring at the accused
Description:
Title from pen and ink caption inscribed below image., Date from unverified local card catalog record., and Possibly the work of Isaac Cruikshank.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Courtrooms, Criminals, Judges, Judicial proceedings, and Lawyers
Opposite page 23. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait, full-length seated, with her arms folded and resting on a table, rosary beads in front of her; turned slightly left but looking back towards the right. After Hogarth's painting of Sarah Malcolm is in the National Gallery of Scotland
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Bound in opposite page 23 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
After front flyleaf. Case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman, and of his acquaintance
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three-quarter length depiction of James Hackman after being hanged, his body lying on a table wrapped in a sheet
Alternative Title:
Sketch of the corpse of the Reverend James Hackman
Description:
Title written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on James Hackman's execution date of 19 April 1779., and Tipped in after front flyleaf in an extra-illustrated copy of: The case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman ...
[approximately 1815] and [printed mid-20th century]
Call Number:
Paulson 815.00.00.22
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A house is attacked while a lady and a young girl sleep on a couch at center. Three bandits wield weapons, and one takes hold of the necklace of the lady. Another group of armed gentleman approach from the stairs at right."--Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.1612., Engraved after the painting "1er Scène de voleurs" by Louis Léopold Boilly, now in the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille., Restrike of the latest state of the plate, which has a border and stippling added in addition to the title. The titled state is given an original issue date of circa 1815 date in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., In the opinion of Nicholas J.S. Knowles, the coloring on this impression suggests it was printed in England in the mid-20th century by the successor Leadenhall Press., and Plate originally issued without title; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 810.00.00.59. This untitled state might be the plate described under the name "Banditti" in: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 297.
Publisher:
publisher not identified and Leadenhall Press
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Robberies, Firearms, Sofas, and Necklaces
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.
Title inscribed in ink at lower left., John Thurtell was a notorious murderer who, as part of his sentence, was dissected the day after he was hung., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Physicians, Dissections, and Thurtell, John, 1794-1824
Caption title., Text printed in two columns; woodcut illustration at head of sheet., Account of that ‘exemplary punishment’ of death laid down on Andrew Burns and John Hill for robbery and assault on the highway., Not in English short title catalogue., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Burns, Andrew (Weaver), -1798., Hill, John, -1798., and Stafford Gaol.
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Robbery, Executions and executioners, Hangings (Executions), and Carts & wagons
