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1. Bumpology [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 February 1826]
- Call Number:
- Print00044
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A phrenologist, De Ville, in his consulting room, feels the forehead of a loutish gaping youth who kneels on a cushion at his feet. Behind the boy stands his stupid-looking mother, grinning with delight at her son. De Ville, who wears plain old-fashioned dress, has a grotesquely shaped skull fringed with scanty hair; his left hand rests on an open book on his table on which is a skull, numbered phrenologically and resting on a paper: Thurtell [murderer] shown to be Craniologically an Excellent Character. Behind him stands an assistant with a porcine profile writing in a note-book: Very large Wit N° 32. A large book-case covers much of the wall (right). There are also portrait heads illustrating grotesque misshapen features, and a bust on a pedestal with a satyr-like profile."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of quoted text below title: "Pores o'er the cranial map with learned eyes, Each rising hill and bumpy knoll descries, Here secret fires, and there deep mines of sense, His touch detects beneath each prominence.", and For an earlier state before aquatint added, see no. 15157 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 24th, 1826, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Strt., London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- De Ville, J. and Thurtell, John, 1794-1824.
- Subject (Topic):
- Phrenology, Costume, Caricatures and cartoons, Bookcases, and Muffs
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Bumpology [graphic]
2. Hertfordshire tragedy. Or, The evil effects of gaming. Giving the particulars of the execution of John Thurtell, for the murder of Mr. Weare. -- (in verse).
- Published / Created:
- [1823]
- Call Number:
- File 523 W362 823H++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Murder, Murderers, and Hangings (Executions)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hertfordshire tragedy. Or, The evil effects of gaming. Giving the particulars of the execution of John Thurtell, for the murder of Mr. Weare. -- (in verse).
3. The whole particulars of a most barbarous, cruel, and horrid murder, committed upon the body of W. Weare, Esq. --- : together with the dreadful confessions of Hunt and Probart [sic].
- Published / Created:
- [1823]
- Call Number:
- File 523 W362 823++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Just published --- Price twopence ---
- Description:
- Caption title., First line: On Friday night 24th ult. a murder was committed at a place about 6 miles from the town of Watford, Herts. ..., Printed in four columns. With two large woodcuts beneath the title illustrating the murder and the discovery of the body. A third, smaller woodcut depicting the burial of the victim appears in the lower right, above a poem with the heading "A copy of verses": A horrid deed I will relate, but newly brought to light, a deed so foul and barbarous, you've seldom heard the like ..., The Radlett murder, also know as the Elstree murder. The victim was William Weare was murdered by John Thurtell, who owed him a gambling debt, and his accomplices Joseph Hunt and William Probert., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- J. Catnach, printer, 2, Monmouth-Ct., 7 Dials, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Hertfordshire., and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Weare, William, -1823., Thurtell, John, 1794-1824., Hunt, Joseph, active 19th century., and Probert, William, -1825.
- Subject (Topic):
- Murder, Criminals, and Homicides
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The whole particulars of a most barbarous, cruel, and horrid murder, committed upon the body of W. Weare, Esq. --- : together with the dreadful confessions of Hunt and Probart [sic].
