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
White, George, approximately 1684-1732, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1714 and 1740]
Call Number:
Quarto 646 821 B358
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait, half length in an oval, seen from the side looking forward, wearing cravat and gown, of Colonel Blood, the adventure who attempted to steal the regalia in the Tower. State before artist name added to lower left below image
Alternative Title:
Colonel Blood
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6597., and Trimmed to image, mounted and bound in pacing page 169 in the first volume of an extra-illustrated copy of: Bayley, J. History and antiquities of the Tower of London.
A collection of 41 printed items that chronical the 1820 plot to murder the Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, and his cabinet, so named for location where the thirteen conspirators meet near Edgware Road in London. The police learned of the plot through an informer, George Edwards, leading to a police trap in which one policeman, Richard Smithers, was killed, but the plotters were apprehended. Five other conspirators were transported to Australia. The collection includes portraits of the plotters, views of the Cato Street area and the interior of the loft where they were found, broadsides describing the events (some with images), and descriptions of the execution of five of the conspirators. The collection includes a series of portrait prints by Robert Cooper after drawings by Abraham Wivell that were published as illustrations to Thomas Kelly's "The Cato Street Conspiracy" (1820). A drawing signed "Peter Jackson, July 31, 1960" is a 20th-century view of the exterior of the London building where the conspirators were discovered
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Many of the titles of the prints and broadsides are individually cataloged. Search by call number: LWL MSS 52., In English., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and London
Subject (Name):
Adams, Robert, active 1820., Hiden, Thomas, active 1820., Brunt, J. T. 1782?-1820. (John Thomas),, Cooper, Charles, active 1820., Davidson, William, 1786-1820., Edwards, George, 1788-1842., Ings, James, -1820., Monument, John, active 1820., Thistlewood, Arthur, 1770-1820., and Tidd, Richard, 1775?-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, Revolutionaries, History, Treason, and Criminals
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
