"A man (left) leads by a rope the foremost of a crowd of prisoners sentenced to transportation who follow him from left to right. The two foremost are bearded Jews. Behind comes a knock-kneed youth taking a pinch of snuff; a man behind him is gnawing a large bone. There are ten prisoners in all. The background is part of the façade of Newgate prison."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Numbered '465' in lower left corner., 1 print : mezzotint ; sheet 37 x 26 cm., and Date erased from this impression and written in manuscript: 1760
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, no. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"A man (left) leads by a rope the foremost of a crowd of prisoners sentenced to transportation who follow him from left to right. The two foremost are bearded Jews. Behind comes a knock-kneed youth taking a pinch of snuff; a man behind him is gnawing a large bone. There are ten prisoners in all. The background is part of the façade of Newgate prison."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Numbered '465' in lower left corner., No. 21 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering. Mounted to 38.6 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, no. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London
View of the interior of the cell on the left: Portrait of John ('Jack') Sheppard, whole length, seated on a chair in prison cell at Newgate, with hands and feet in chains, shackled to the floor, leaning to left, looking up at sunlight streaming through the window at right; wearing hat, jacket, waistcoat, breeches, stockings and buckled shoes, cloak or blanket over chair back and on floor; broken chimney where he escaped at top left. On the right, eleven images showing details of John ('Jack') Sheppard's escape from prison on 15 October 1724, including the locks, bolts and doors he broke open, the hole he made in the chimney, and climbing over the outer walls of Newgate prison
Alternative Title:
Jack Sheppard drawn from the life
Description:
Titles from item., Possibly intended for sale as two separate prints, with publication line repeated under second title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Titled 'Portrait of Jack Shepherd, with a representation of the manner in which he made his escape from Newgate, Oct. 15th, 1724: published by Bowles' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc, London, 1829., and Mounted to: 38 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by T. Bowles, print seller next the Chapter House in St. Pauls Ch. Yard & J. Bowles, print seller over against Stocks Market
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, London., England., and City of London (England)
Subject (Name):
Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724, and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
"Interior view of the chapel, in the prison; condemned prisoners kneel and pray in the Dock, around a coffin."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 57., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 209.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st March 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Chapels, Interiors, Prisoners, Prayer, Coffins, and Pulpits
"The half length figure of a ruffianly man, shouting "Down with the Bank" and raising in both hands a stick or bar. In his hat is a ribbon favour inscribed "No Popery". On the right and behind is the façade of Newgate in flames."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Newgate reformer
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., The ficticious publisher "I. Catch" probably refers to Jack Ketch or the hangman. See British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below title: Tho' he says he's a Protestant, look at the print, the face and the bludgeon will give you a hint, religion he cries, in hopes to deceive, while his practice is only to burn and to thieve., and Watermark: SEC[?] 1828.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs, June 9th, 1780, by I. Catch of St. Giles's
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Gordon Riots, 1780, Vandalism, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 29. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The half length figure of a ruffianly man, shouting "Down with the Bank" and raising in both hands a stick or bar. In his hat is a ribbon favour inscribed "No Popery". On the right and behind is the façade of Newgate in flames."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Newgate reformer
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], The ficticious publisher "I. Catch" probably refers to Jack Ketch or the hangman. See British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below title: Tho' he says he's a Protestant, look at the print, the face and the bludgeon will give you a hint, religion he cries, in hopes to deceive, while his practice is only to burn and to thieve., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, page 31., and On leaf 29 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, June 9th, 1780, by I. Catch of St. Giles's [i.e. Field & Tuer] and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 5679 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5. and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Gordon Riots, 1780, Vandalism, and Clothing & dress
"Satire on the corrupt election for the Denbighshire county seat in 1741 where William Myddelton returned his kinsman John Myddelton although the latter had been heavily defeated at the poll. William Myddelton is shown in his cell at Newgate, seated despondently in front of a fire above which is drawn a hanging man and the initials "R.T."; the Bishop of St Asaph peers through the barred window. Beneath the image is the receipt for the prisoner from Thomas Bold, Keeper of Newgate."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Below the image with the title, continuing 'Newgate Febry 24th 1741. / Reced. the Body of Willm, M-n Esqr. the High Sheriff of the County of Den - gh by the hand of Mr. Tho. Hollingshead Messinger to the Honble,, the House of Commons, by vertue of a Warrant from the Right Honourable the Speaker of the Said House. / Tho Bold Keeper / Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by T.B. Feb: 27th. 1741.', Publication year in British Museum catalogue: 1742., and On page after 100. Sheet 268 x 165 mm.
"Satire on the corrupt election for the Denbighshire county seat in 1741 where William Myddelton returned his kinsman John Myddelton although the latter had been heavily defeated at the poll. William Myddelton is shown in his cell at Newgate, seated despondently in front of a fire above which is drawn a hanging man and the initials "R.T."; the Bishop of St Asaph peers through the barred window. Beneath the image is the receipt for the prisoner from Thomas Bold, Keeper of Newgate."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Below the image with the title, continuing 'Newgate Febry 24th 1741. / Reced. the Body of Willm, M-n Esqr. the High Sheriff of the County of Den - gh by the hand of Mr. Tho. Hollingshead Messinger to the Honble,, the House of Commons, by vertue of a Warrant from the Right Honourable the Speaker of the Said House. / Tho Bold Keeper / Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by T.B. Feb: 27th. 1741.', Publication year in British Museum catalogue: 1742., Mounted., and Date from imprint repeated in unidentified hand in lower right corner of plate.
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.
"Portrait caricature of the murderer Thomas Simmons, a young man in shackles; whole length, standing in prison yard in profile to right, hand in pocket of coat; five prisoners standing, sitting and conversing in front of cells behind; after a drawing by Angelo."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; 243 x 158 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom.
Publisher:
T. Rowlandson
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Simmons, Thomas, -1808 and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Prisons, Murder, Criminals, Prisoners, and Shackles
