"Mary Aubrey, dismembering her husband's body with a broad-bladed knife, encouraged by two demons behind; her twelve-year-old son holding his severed head at left; small image inset behind at left showing her being burnt at Tyburn."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of an 1688 print, with the supplied title in the London Picture Archive (record no. 26631): Murder in Long Acre. The original print, with a transcribed title from the caption below the image: A representation of the bloody murder committed by Mary Aubrey, a French midwife, which was burn [sic] to death the 2d day of March 1687/8. Cf. London Metropolitan Archives collections, reference code SC/GL/PR/LC/42/021/p7500042., Text to the left of title: Her son 12 years of age acquitted as acting by compulsion., Text to the right of title: She was hanged & burnt at Tyburn., and Mounted to: 32.5 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1, 1798 by J. Caulfield
Subject (Name):
Hobry, Marie, -1688,
Subject (Topic):
Homicides, Criminals, Dismemberment, Burning at the stake, Knives, and Demons
The body of conspirator Miles Sindercombe being dragged by a horse towards the gallows, under which a hole in the ground is visible. A group of soldiers carrying pikes and axes is seen in the background; the horse is led by a man with a whip
Alternative Title:
Miles Sindercombe having murdered himself was drawn upon Tower Hill ...
Description:
Title etched below image. and Approximate date of publication supplied by curator.
MacLaine in leg-irons stands in the middle of his prison cell, surrounded by several women, a cleric, and a man who appears to be saying an emotional good-bye to the prisoner prior to his execution. One of the women dabs her eyes with a large handkerchief. On the far left stands the goaler, with a bunch of keys in his hand
Alternative Title:
Ladys last farewell to MacLean and Ladies last farewell to MacLaine
Description:
Title engraved above image., Date from contemporary ms. annotation., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Farewell my friends let not your hearts be fill'd, my time is near & I'll with calmness yeild [sic] ..., Watermark: countermark IV., and Mounted to 26 x 31 cm.
Manuscript signed by the Prime Minister, Robert Walpole ordering George Earl of Halifax to arrange payment to the merchant Jonathan Forward, for transporting 66 convicts from Newgate Jail to His Majesties plantations in America aboard the ship Anne, Captain Thomas Wrangham, Commander. The transportation of British convicts to the colonies in America and the West Indies first began in 1617, having been authorised by James I in 1615, but ceased to function by the end of the 17th century due to objections by the colonies themselves and the plantation owners. Consequently, an Act of Parliament was passed in 1718 'for the more effectual transportation of felons'. In accordance with the Transportation Act 1717, Forward was contracted to transport felons from Newgate Prison and from numerous home counties. The ship Anne which was used for the transportation described in this document had originally been a slaver. Also signed by Charles Turney and R. Edgcumbe, this document orders the payment of 264 pounds to Forward, 'For the Allowance of Four Pounds per head for and upon sixty six Malefactors who were lately lying in Newgate in the City of London under Sentence of Transportation."
Description:
In English., In brown ink on cream laid paper., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Halifax, George Montagu, Earl of, approximately 1684-1739. and Forward, Jonathan, 1680-1760.
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Penal transportation, and Law and legislation
"A fight between two robbers, one of them a woman, and three armed runners on the road by a milestone marked as 11 miles from St Giles's Pound."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., One line of text directly below title: A burlesque parody on that tender song call'd Love & Glory. Written & sung by Gaby Grim., Twelve lines of verse arranged in three columns above imprint statement: Young Bobby was as blythe a youth, As ever grac'd an attic story ..., Plate numbered '449' in the lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 12, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Street scene. The showman (right) stands in profile to the right looking up at Punch and Judy who perform on their tiny stage, the supports of which are covered by a checked material. A monkey wearing a cocked hat and coat stands on his shoulder and takes an apple from the basket on the head of an apple-woman. A man plays a hurdy-gurdy in the foreground on the extreme right. The spectators gaze up intensely amused: A milkman (left), his yoke on his shoulder, has put down his pail, from which a second monkey dressed as a woman is drinking. A young woman holds out a hat for coins, while she picks the pocket of a spectator. A third monkey crouches on the ground. Beneath the title: 'Now 's the Time for Mirth & Glee, - Sing & Laugh & Dance with me.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Punch's puppet show
Description:
Title below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of verse below title: Now's the time for mirth & glee ..., Plate numbered '161' in lower left corner., and One of a series of Drolls.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Criminals, Crowds, Dogs, Milkmen, Monkeys, Organ grinders, Peddlers, Puppet shows, Spectators, and Street vendors
Copy (not reversed) of the first state of Plate 6th of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 137): Interior of a gambling house in Covent Garden where Tom has fallen, raving, on one knee having lost his money at dice; behind him a chaotic group of gamblers, most of whom fail to notice that flames and smoke are pouring over the panelling and through the door (left); to right, a highwayman (a gun and mask in his pocket) sits beside the hearth ignoring a small boy who offers him a drink, on the wall is a handbill advertising "R. Tustian Card Maker" -- British Museum online catalogue. On the lower left, a man is entering a note of a loan to Lord Cogg for £500. A dog with a collar "Covent Gar[den]" barks at Tom
Alternative Title:
Ruined at a gaming table, Rake's progress. Plate 6, and If mortal peace of mind be worth your care ...
Description:
Title from text engraved above image., "Plate 6"--Lower right below design., Verses below image in three columns, four lines each: If mortal peace of mind be worth your care ..., The ornamental borders along the left and right edges are printed from a separate plate (images 25 x 2.8 cm, on plate mark 25.7 x 36.5 cm)., A reissue, with a new publication line and with ornamental borders added, of the sixth of eight prints in a series; all are copies of the first states of Hogarth's plates with new verses in the columns below the image; copies were made with Hogarth's consent in 1735. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., Original publication line: Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell according to Act of Parliament July 1735., and Ornamental borders partially obscure image on left and text on right.
Publisher:
Publish'd wth. [the] consent of Mrs. Hogarth, by Henry Parker, at No. 82 in Cornhill
