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1. "Every rogue is a coward" [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [6 June 1801]
Call Number:: 801.06.06.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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 waistcoat pocket, saying: "Ah! - don't Fire! - I'll give all". Both have dropped their reins. A signpost (left) points 'To Hounslow'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north.
Publisher:: Publishd. June 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Topic):: Hounslow (London, England) and Criminals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > "Every rogue is a coward" [graphic]

2. "Every rogue is a coward" [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [6 June 1801]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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 waistcoat pocket, saying: "Ah! - don't Fire! - I'll give all". Both have dropped their reins. A signpost (left) points 'To Hounslow'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., 1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 26.0 x 36.4 cm, on sheet 28.1 x 41.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 54 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:: Publishd. June 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Topic):: Hounslow (London, England) and Criminals
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Every rogue is a coward" [graphic]

3. "Monsieur est trés voleur..." [graphic]

Creator:: Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1845]
Call Number:: Print00071
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Published in Le Charivari, 5-6 February 1845., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:: Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse, 29 and Imp. d'Aubert & Cie
Subject (Topic):: Phrenology, Quacks & quackery, Criminals, and Smokeless tobacco
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > "Monsieur est trés voleur..." [graphic]

4. A May Day garland for 1820 [graphic].

Published / Created:: [May 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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 Castlereagh is a man wearing a black mask, and with a blood-stained knife in his mouth, perhaps one of the two who turned King's evidence. On the right, taking Castlereagh's left hand, is the Attorney-General, Gifford, grinning diabolically. Holding Sidmouth's left hand is Vansittart (in his gown). Facing these two are Canning and Chief Justice Abbott in his robes. Four others are poorly characterized. They dance to a fiddle played by Edwards who sits on a grassy mound (right), with an empty gibbet behind his head. He says: "Dance away my Friends, I have been the cause of all this fun by your Help and Money. "Edwards the Instigator!!!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with two other prints) on leaf 9 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and With figures of "Sidmouth", "Londonderry", and "Gifford" identified in pencil below, the first two on mounting leaf and the last one in lower margin of print. Typed extract of twelve lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
Publisher:: 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
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A May Day garland for 1820 [graphic].

5. A correct likeness of the notorious Jane Gibbs [graphic].

Published / Created:: [approximately September 1799]
Call Number:: 799.09.00.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 constables, she was at last found to be insane. See British Museum catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Six lines of text below title: She addresses herself to decent dressed men, as a servant out of place, or a Quaker, pretends a deal of modesty, and if she cannot prevail by these means, she then accuses them of having robbed her ..., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
Publisher:: Pub. by Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Gibbs, Jane, active 1799.
Subject (Topic):: Criminals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A correct likeness of the notorious Jane Gibbs [graphic].

6. A criminal of the name of Hog claiming relationship to Lord Justice Bacon [art original].

Published / Created:: [1796?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 58 Box D165
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 judge, on the far left, wears a black and gold-trimmed robe and leans intensely over the bench glaring at the accused
Description:: Title from pen and ink caption inscribed below image., Date from unverified local card catalog record., and Possibly the work of Isaac Cruikshank.
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Topic):: Courtrooms, Criminals, Judges, Judicial proceedings, and Lawyers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A criminal of the name of Hog claiming relationship to Lord Justice Bacon [art original].

7. A drawing of Sarah Malcolm after Hogarth [art original].

Published / Created:: [ca. 1800?]
Call Number:: Quarto 33 30 Copy 5
Collection Title:: Opposite page 23. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Description:: Title from note in pencil below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Bound in opposite page 23 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733,
Subject (Topic):: Criminals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A drawing of Sarah Malcolm after Hogarth [art original].

8. A harlot's progress. In Bridewell beating hemp = Dans la maison de correction a battre le chanvre / [graphic] : Plate IV

Published / Created:: [not before 25 March 1768]
Call Number:: Hogarth 768.03.25.12+ Box 210
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 a one-eyed female attendant fingers the lace lappet hanging from her cap and her serving-woman sits before her in Moll's elegant shoes; next to her a fellow inmate picks vermin off her clothes. Next to Moll is a gambler, a torn playing card on the floor in front of him; behind her, a man stands with his hands in a pillory on which hangs a sign "Better to Work than Stand thus." Further down the wall is a whipping post with the words "The Wages of Idleness." On a shudder against the back wall is an effigy of Sir John Gonson ("Sr. J G").
Alternative Title:: Harlot's progress. Plate 4, In Bridewell beating hemp, and Dans la maison de correction a battre le chanvre
Description:: Title in English and French engraved below image., Date of publication based on the series of Rake's progress by Henry Parker dated 25 March 1768 in which these same engraved border pieces are used, here visibly more worn, and reversed on the page., The ornamental borders along the left and right edges are printed from a separate plate (images 25 x 2.8 cm, on plate mark 25.5 x 36 cm)., Copy of Hogarth's original plate, engraved in reverse as per the piracy published by Elisha Kirkall in 1732., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2076., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 124.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Bridewell Prison.
Subject (Topic):: Prostitution, Hemp industry, Criminals, Gamblers, Hemp, Prisons, Prostitutes, Syphilis, Rake's progress, and Stocks (Punishment)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A harlot's progress. In Bridewell beating hemp = Dans la maison de correction a battre le chanvre / [graphic] : Plate IV

9. A harlots progress. [graphic] / Fourth

Creator:: King, Giles, active 18th century, printmaker
Published / Created:: [28 April 1732]
Call Number:: Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:: Page 98. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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 her cap and her erstwhile serving-woman is trying on her fashionable shoes and stockings; beyond, a man stands with his hands in a pillory."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: 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
Description:: Title etched above image., Text below image: In Bridewel beating of hemp amidst many others in the like circumstances., One of three designs on a single plate, with the common imprint "Sold by G. King at the Golden Head in Brownlow Street, Drury Lane, and the booksellers & printsellers of London & Westminster." For the other two designs (the fifth and sixth plates in the Harlot's progress series), see nos. 2093 and 2108 the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., Issued on 28 April 1732; see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), page 76., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from top edge and statement of responsibility from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., A copy in reverse of the original plate by Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 124., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 98 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:: G. King
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Bridewell Prison.
Subject (Topic):: Prostitution, Hemp industry, Criminals, Gamblers, Hemp, Prisons, Prostitutes, Syphilis, Rakes progress, and Stocks (Punishment)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A harlots progress. [graphic] / Fourth