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
Includes Gardelle's account of his murder of Anne King and a description of his attempts at suicide after he was apprehended., Two woodcuts show Gardelle in his prison cell with visitors and the courtroom as the jury announces its verdict., and Not in ESTC.
Before frontispiece. Case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman, and of his acquaintance
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of James Hackman, half-length, in an oval, in profile to the right, dressed in a dark frockcoat over his waistcoat, his hair curled and powdered and with a black patch on his forehead."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Reverend James Hackman
Description:
Title etched below image., Frontispiece to: The case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman, and of his acquaintance with the late Miss Martha Reay. London : Printed for G. Kearsly, near Serjeants-Inn, Fleet-street, 1779., Leaf before frontispiece, in an extra-illustrated copy of: The case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman ..., and Originally issued as the frontispiece, this plate is separated from the title page here by another plate (a portrait of Martha Reay) that was inserted into this copy.
A scene in a room: Justice Henry Fielding stans in a circle drawn on the floor, the scales of 'Astrea' in his pocket, his hand supported on the sword of Justice. Also in the circle as if to protect them from witchcraft are the Lord Mayor Sir Crisp Gascoyne, his state collar round his neck, and "Dr." John Hill, the clyster-pipe of 'Galen' in his pocket; the latter points to the gypsy Mary Squires whose cause he advocated. Fielding points to Elizabeth Canning with an attendent(?) behind, whose story he eagerly defended. Two pictures hanging on the wall amplify the subject of the print: on the left, a view of the Mansion House, London, then recently erected; and on the right, a view of the Old College of Physicians, comprising a mortar, a dried and stuffed skin of a crocodile, a human skeleton, and a stuffed ostrich. Between the pictures hangs the regalia of the City of London. Centered on the ground is a bottle labelled 'Another bottle' alluding to the 'Bottle-Conjurer' (See British Museum satire 'The magician' no 3022).
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Pr. 6d"--Lower right below verses., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: When one head has a cause in hand, A cause it cannot understand; Auxilliarys must be good, To make the matter understood: Three conj'rers sure must find ye out, Which, one, might ever hold in doubt., and Mounted to 35 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and British.
Subject (Name):
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Hill, John, 1714?-1775, Gascoyne, Crisp, Sir, 1700-1761, Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773, and Squires, Mary, -1762
Subject (Topic):
Romani, Fraud, Interiors, Criminals, Physicians, British, Government officials, and Magicians
"George Smith (left) stands in profile to the right holding his hat, gazing fixedly at Deacon Brodie (right), who stands almost full-face looking to the front. Smith's clothes are out at elbows. Brodie is well dressed, wearing a cocked hat, a seal hangs from his fob, he holds a tasselled cane. Beside him are (left) a spurred game-cock and a dog, whose fierce-looking head appears on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Print numbered '106' in lower right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Brodie, William, 1741-1788, and Smith, George, -1788,
"Satire based on a novel of the same title on the cruel and hypocritical behaviour of a female former convict with four scenes enclosed within rococo scrolls. The scene on the left shows Polly Haycock, visibly pregnant, standing on a quay chained with a group of other convicts, guarded by a turnkey as they await transportration; above a mask holds a ribbon in its mouth lettered "With Child by the under turnkey, put on board a Lighter, from thence into a Transport Ship bound for Virginia". In the centre are two scenes, the lower one showing a coach travelling through a town being approached by two robbers, one of whom stands at the coach door raising his hands towards the woman sitting inside who wears a watch. Beneath this scene is written "Rob Theif. Or the Lady of ye Gold Watch Polly Haycock". In the scene above this a nearly naked woman is kneeling on a stone, her hands tied behind her back, being whipped by a black man; in the background on the left a man can be seen through a window sitting eating while on the right a man on horseback raises his hands. Written above is "Whipp'd during dinner her master boasting that no Monarch upon earth had so fine Musick as he fancied her Cries. In the Intreim [sic] the Justice Releasing and takes her home". In the fourth scene on the right she stands in a fashionable dress in a grand room holding a stick, a girl lies at her feet in evident distress, her skirt pulled up; a fashionably black page-boy stands on the left and three female servants stand in the background on the right. Above the scene a mask holds a ribbon in its mouth lettered "Her usage to her Free-born English Servants is as they do Negroes and Felons in the Plantations tho' she felt the Mesery herself". Beneath is written Remember Mrs. Branch & her daughter (a reference to the notorious case of Elizabeth Branch who murdered her servant in 1740)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Print made by: George Bickham the Younger. See British Museum online catalogue., Four designs enclosed by scrolls, each with its own inscription., Temporary local subject terms: Boats: lighter -- Plates -- Dishes: tankard -- Food: cooked fowl -- Furniture: table -- Chair -- Mantel -- Female servant -- Female dress: gold watch -- Sticks -- Transports -- Architectural details: Virginia planter's house., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Branch, Elizabeth and Haycock, Mary, active 1741
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Carriages & coaches, Criminals, Dogs, Horses, Masks, Prison laborers, Servants, Enslaved people, and Whips
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Sep. 30, 1747.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 52. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an underground drinking den Tom Idle, with a pistol at his foot and another in his pocket, shows his stolen goods to his one-eyed accomplice unaware that behind him his companion (the prostitute) from the garret bedroom (Plate 7) is betraying him to the magistrate and constables. A serving woman with a patch where her nose should be approaches the two thieves with a large tankard in her hands. To their right, the body of a man is being pushed through a trapdoor. In the far right a soldier with his back to the viewer embraces a woman. In the background there is a brawl while two other men sit by the fireside, one of whom is smoking a pipe before a roaring fire, the other asleep under a rope (noose?). The right of the frame is decorated with a scourge, manacles and a hangman's rope; on the left frame hang the mace of the City of London, the alderman's gold chain and a sword of state
Alternative Title:
Idle apprentice betrayed by his whore and taken in a night cellar with his accomplice
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., "Plate 9"--Below frame., Ninth plate in the series of twelve: "Industry and idleness"., Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: "Proverbs Chap:VI. Ve: 26. The Adulteress will hunt for the precious life.", 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 26.2 x 34.7 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 43.5 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 52 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Sep. 30, 1747.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 52. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an underground drinking den Tom Idle, with a pistol at his foot and another in his pocket, shows his stolen goods to his one-eyed accomplice unaware that behind him his companion (the prostitute) from the garret bedroom (Plate 7) is betraying him to the magistrate and constables. A serving woman with a patch where her nose should be approaches the two thieves with a large tankard in her hands. To their right, the body of a man is being pushed through a trapdoor. In the far right a soldier with his back to the viewer embraces a woman. In the background there is a brawl while two other men sit by the fireside, one of whom is smoking a pipe before a roaring fire, the other asleep under a rope (noose?). The right of the frame is decorated with a scourge, manacles and a hangman's rope; on the left frame hang the mace of the City of London, the alderman's gold chain and a sword of state
Alternative Title:
Idle apprentice betrayed by his whore and taken in a night cellar with his accomplice
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., "Plate 9"--Below frame., Ninth plate in the series of twelve: "Industry and idleness"., Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: "Proverbs Chap:VI. Ve: 26. The Adulteress will hunt for the precious life.", and On page 139 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 26.3 x 34.4 cm.
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Sep. 30, 1747.
Call Number:
Sotheby 52 Box 100
Collection Title:
Plate 52. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an underground drinking den Tom Idle, with a pistol at his foot and another in his pocket, shows his stolen goods to his one-eyed accomplice unaware that behind him his companion (the prostitute) from the garret bedroom (Plate 7) is betraying him to the magistrate and constables. A serving woman with a patch where her nose should be approaches the two thieves with a large tankard in her hands. To their right, the body of a man is being pushed through a trapdoor. In the far right a soldier with his back to the viewer embraces a woman. In the background there is a brawl while two other men sit by the fireside, one of whom is smoking a pipe before a roaring fire, the other asleep under a rope (noose?). The right of the frame is decorated with a scourge, manacles and a hangman's rope; on the left frame hang the mace of the City of London, the alderman's gold chain and a sword of state
Alternative Title:
Idle apprentice betrayed by his whore and taken in a night cellar with his accomplice
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., "Plate 9"--Below frame., Ninth plate in the series of twelve: "Industry and idleness"., Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: "Proverbs Chap:VI. Ve: 26. The Adulteress will hunt for the precious life.", and On laid paper.
