"Two terrified riders meet face to face on Hounslow Heath; each takes the other for a highwayman. One (left) losing his stirrups holds out his purse, saying, "Here is my Money! Spare my Life". The other dropping his whip, puts his hand in his waistcoa...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. June 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"Two terrified riders meet face to face on Hounslow Heath; each takes the other for a highwayman. One (left) losing his stirrups holds out his purse, saying, "Here is my Money! Spare my Life". The other dropping his whip, puts his hand in his waistcoa...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. June 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"Ministers and others, holding hands, caper in a ring round a pole to which are symmetrically attached the decollated heads of the Cato Street conspirators executed on 1 May, see British Museum Satires No. 13707, &c. Between Sidmouth and the smiling C...
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. May 1820 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Abbott, Charles, Baron Tenterden, 1762-1832, and Edwards, George, 1788-1843
Subject (Topic):
Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, Politicians, May poles, Dance, Decapitations, Heads (Anatomy), Criminals, Masks, Knives, and Violins
Criminal portrait; three-quarter length with hands to side wearing a hat. Gibbs was tried twice in the autumn of 1799 for falsely accusing men of robbing her; After making many similar attempts, being recognized, assaulted by the mob, and protected by...
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 jud...
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Title from pen and ink caption inscribed below image.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Courtrooms, Criminals, Judges, Judicial proceedings, and Lawyers
Opposite page 23. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
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1
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still image
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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
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Title from note in pencil below image, on mounting page.
A copy in reverse of William Hogarth's Plate 4 of A harlot's progress: A scene in Bridewell prison with Moll Hackabout and the other inmates beating hemp under the supervision of a stern warder holding a cane. Moll is still dressed in her finery, but ...
Alternative Title:
Harlot's progress. Plate 4, In Bridewell beating hemp, and Dans la maison de correction a battre le chanvre
Page 98. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
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"Copy of Bridewell prison with inmates (including prostitutes and a card-player) beating hemp under the supervision of a warder holding a cane; Moll is still dressed in her finery, but a one-eyed female attendant fingers the lace lappet hanging from h...
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Harlot's progress. Plate 4, In Bridewel beating of hemp amidst many others in the like circumstances, and In Bridewell beating of hemp amidst many others in the like circumstances
