Title from text above images., Seven individual images on one plate; each image has individual title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 10, 1824 by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Hangings (Executions), Ice skating, and Vomiting
Caption title., First lines: What horrid deeds from gaming, take place now every day, the human mind inflaming, 'tis sure to lead astray ..., Entirely in verse; text printed in five columns confined to lower half of sheet. The six woodcut illustrations include two portraits of the accused with mention of their punishments ("John Thurtell, guilty, death"; "Joseph Hunt for transporta[t]ion"); three views of areas associated with the crime ("A view of Gill's Hill Lane"; "View of Probert's cottage and pond"; "The pond where the body was found"); and an uncaptioned depiction of the public execution of Thurtell in front of a crowd of onlookers and hawkers., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pitts printer, wholesale toy and marble warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
England and Hertfordshire.
Subject (Name):
Weare, William, -1823., Thurtell, John, 1794-1824., Hunt, Joseph, active 19th century., and Probert, William, -1825.
Leaf 32. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull stands on a stone on tiptoe under a tree, a rope round his neck attached to a branch of the tree. He holds the rope with both hands, to prevent strangulation. On the right stands a Frenchman (France) holding out a leek to John Bull, between them is a stream or river. John Bull is a moderately stout man with a thick neck, wearing an ill-made bob-wig, not the characteristic John Bull of later satires, who had already appeared, see British Museum Satires Nos. 5611, 5612. The Frenchman is very thin, wearing a night-cap, a long pigtail queue, a ruffled shirt, and sabots stuffed with grass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: France as a French peasant -- Emblems: Leek for France -- ?Reference to defeat at Yorktown., and Second of two plates on leaf 32.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Hangings (Executions), Nooses, Peasants, Onions, Streams, and Wigs
Caption title., First line: We have the painful task ..., Mostly printed in two columns, with short section at the bottom in three columns., With woodcut illustration at top illustrating the scene of the execution., The men, referred to in the text as ‘proper subjects for capital punishment’, were executed 29 November 1826 for the following crimes: Hayes was convicted of breaking into the dwelling-house of his employer; Boyce was part of a gang convicted for assault; King and Robinson were members of the Bethnal Green gang who committed ‘assault on the highway’; and Nicholls and Goulby were convicted of robbing a ‘poor old man ... attended with the most cruel and brutal violence’., and Contemporary ink annotation on verso noting the date of the execution. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T. Birt, 10, Great St. Andrews Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Trials (Assault and battery), Trials (Robbery), Executions and executioners, and Hangings (Executions)
"Peel kicks a lean old watchman behind, and drags from his shoulders his patched and tattered coat. Just behind him (right) is a big bonfire in which a watch-box and battered lanterns are blazing; beside it lie more lanterns, a rattle, and staves. In the background a watchman hangs by the neck from the branch of a tree, still holding rattle and lantern. Beside the tree is a pond from which projects an arm clutching a rattle. Peel says: '"But such a poor, bare-forked animal as thou art--Off--off you lendings: come unbutton here vide Shaks--' ["Lear", III. iv]. The terrified watchman answers: '"Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live, vide Shaks.' ["Merchant of Venice", IV. i]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Michaelmas Day 1829, or, The last watchman and Last watchman
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of W. Heaths etching., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 29th, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):
Police, Watchmen, Bonfires, Drowning victims, Hangings (Executions), Kicking, and Lanterns
Copy in reverse after Hogarth's portrait, with the addition of a clergyman behind Malcolm holding up a wedding ring, and, to left, a view of her execution in Fleet Street. Sarah Malcolm, shown three-quarter length and seated as she leans with her hands on a table to left, looking back over her left shoulder. She wears a white apron and a white shawl over her head. The unidentified printmaker has added a piece of paper and pen and ink stand on the table
Alternative Title:
Sarah Malcom and Sarah Malcolm
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue: March 1732/3., On page 53 in volume 1. Plate mark 170 x 121 mm., and Above image: a note in Steevens's hand: See Mr. Nichols Biographical anecdotes &c., edit. 3d, p. 172.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733,
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Clergy, Criminals, and Hangings (Executions)
Copy in reverse after Hogarth's portrait, with the addition of a clergyman behind Malcolm holding up a wedding ring, and, to left, a view of her execution in Fleet Street. Sarah Malcolm, shown three-quarter length and seated as she leans with her hands on a table to left, looking back over her left shoulder. She wears a white apron and a white shawl over her head. The unidentified printmaker has added a piece of paper and pen and ink stand on the table
Alternative Title:
Sarah Malcom and Sarah Malcolm
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue: March 1732/3., and Mounted to sheet 226 x 236 mm; with leaf from the Newgate calendar (p. 255-6) about her crime.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733,
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Clergy, Criminals, and Hangings (Executions)
"From the opposite ends of a horizontal balance hang (left) a triangle from which are suspended the corpses of thirteen sailors, and (right) the body of a military officer in uniform (Governor Wall); all have bandaged eyes. The balance hangs in front of a stone building, in the centre of which is an open door showing men seated at a council table, a messenger stands in the doorway giving a dispatch box marked 'GR' to another messenger, saying, "Deliver this Immediatly He must Die." The pilastered doorway is inscribed: 'Justitiae Soror Fides'; above it are kneeling statues of Truth and Justice; between them they support an inscribed tablet: 'It is determined that British Justice shall never be Stained by Partiality, while the poor & ignorant suffer for their Folly the Rich shall also suffer for their Brutality and Infamy.' On the wall are two placards: (left) 'An Account of the Mutiny', and (right) 'A Full True and Particular Account of the Trial of ... For the Murder of ...' This is headed by a print of a man being tied to a cannon and flogged, while an officer looks on and soldiers stand at attention."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top.
Publisher:
Pud. March 3d 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802.
Subject (Topic):
Trials (Mutiny), Mutiny, Courtrooms, Hangings (Executions), Justice, Military officers, British, and Sailors
"Caricature on the trial of Queen Caroline, with the King and Queen pulling in either direction on the two sides of gibbet on which hang four witnesses and the Constitution."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Political merry thought being a new way to get married
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 74 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Liverpool," "Londondery [sic]," "Sidmouth," "Geo. IV," "Caroline," "Ald. Wood," "Brougham," and "Denman" identified in ink at bottom of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aug. 28, 1820, by John Marshall Junr., 24 Little St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854
