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19. Charles thrown into prison [art original]

Creator:: Dodd, Daniel, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1752 and 1793]
Call Number:: Drawings D639 no. 10 Box D117
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The tenth drawing in a series of twelve that follow a tradition of producing a series on modern morals, a tradition established earlier in the 18th century by artists such as William Hogarth. In this series, twin brothers are bestowed an equal fortune. One brother, Edward, husbands his wealth and on his death, passes on his fortune; whilst the other brother, Charles, squanders his, leaving his family destitute and In this tenth drawing, Charles is confronted by two fellow prisoners as he enters his prison cell. The guard on the left looks in as he holds his key on the lock. The cell contains a single bed, a broken chair, a broken jug, a broadside posted to the wall along with graffiti including the initials "G.B."
Description:: Title from pencil notation below title., Signed "Dodd" in lower left and numbered '10' in ink in the upper right., Date range based on artist's active dates., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Allegorical drawings, Cells (Rooms & spaces), Debt, Graffiti, Prison guards, Prisoners, Prisons, Parables, and Political elections
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Charles thrown into prison [art original]

20. Terrible massacre de femmes dont l'histoire na jamais donne l'éxemple [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1792]
Call Number:: Print00981
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Terrible massacre de femmes dont l'histoire na jamais donne l'example
Description:: Title etched above image., Publisher and place of publication derived from Revolutions de Paris., Date from item., In margin top left and right: Rev. de Paris ; No. 165. P. 430., From: Révolutions de Paris, 1-8 September 1792., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:: Louis Marie Prudhomme
Subject (Geographic):: France
Subject (Name):: Salpêtrière (Hospital).
Subject (Topic):: Massacres, Hospitals, Crowds, Soldiers, Prisoners, Homicides, Prostitutes, and History
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Terrible massacre de femmes dont l'histoire na jamais donne l'éxemple [graphic].

21. The impeachment, or, "The father of the gang turnd. kings evidence" [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [May 1791]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Sheridan and Fox are prisoners behind a bar on which they lean. Burke towers above them, with a stern frown, seizing each by the hair. He says: ""Behold the abettors of Revolutions, see "the authors of Plots & conspiracies, & take cognizance of the enemies of both "Church & State; - "I know them all, & have a while upheld, the unyok'd "humour of their Wickedness," - I have bore [sic] with them 'till the measure "of their iniquity is full; but now, I will bare them before ye Justice of injured "humanity, - I will prove unequivocally, that there exists at the present "moment, a junto of Miscreant Jacobites [sic], who are aiming at the Over-"throw of the British Constitution" - Vide Burkes Speech on the Quebec Bill - ". Sheridan (left) in profile to the left, his hands clasped, says with a terrified expression, "Ha! what's that? miscreant Jacobites! - plots Conspiracies! Revolution! - O! Damnation! we're all found out! - ah Joseph! Joseph! I fear you've brought up your Neck for a fine Collar!" Fox (right), his head bowed under Burke's hand, his handkerchief to his eyes, says, "O the devil! I'm quite overcome, & stupified with Grief! to think that the Man who has been my dearest Friend, and my Chum in all infamy, for Twenty five years, should now turn Snitch at last! good-lack-a-day!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Father of the gang turnd. kings evidence and Father of the gang turned king's evidence
Description:: Title from text in bottom part of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Burke's speech on Quebec Bill -- Coalition: denounced in 1791 -- Spectacles -- Literature: Sheridan's School for scandal., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 31.1 x 39.7 cm, on sheet 32.1 x 41.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 64 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):: Jacobites, Politicians, Impeachments, Prisoners, Debates, Eyeglasses, Crying, and Handkerchiefs
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The impeachment, or, "The father of the gang turnd. kings evidence" [graphic].

22. The impeachment, or, "The father of the gang turnd. kings evidence" [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [May 1791]
Call Number:: 791.05.00.02+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Sheridan and Fox are prisoners behind a bar on which they lean. Burke towers above them, with a stern frown, seizing each by the hair. He says: ""Behold the abettors of Revolutions, see "the authors of Plots & conspiracies, & take cognizance of the enemies of both "Church & State; - "I know them all, & have a while upheld, the unyok'd "humour of their Wickedness," - I have bore [sic] with them 'till the measure "of their iniquity is full; but now, I will bare them before ye Justice of injured "humanity, - I will prove unequivocally, that there exists at the present "moment, a junto of Miscreant Jacobites [sic], who are aiming at the Over-"throw of the British Constitution" - Vide Burkes Speech on the Quebec Bill - ". Sheridan (left) in profile to the left, his hands clasped, says with a terrified expression, "Ha! what's that? miscreant Jacobites! - plots Conspiracies! Revolution! - O! Damnation! we're all found out! - ah Joseph! Joseph! I fear you've brought up your Neck for a fine Collar!" Fox (right), his head bowed under Burke's hand, his handkerchief to his eyes, says, "O the devil! I'm quite overcome, & stupified with Grief! to think that the Man who has been my dearest Friend, and my Chum in all infamy, for Twenty five years, should now turn Snitch at last! good-lack-a-day!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Father of the gang turnd. kings evidence and Father of the gang turned king's evidence
Description:: Title from text in bottom part of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Burke's speech on Quebec Bill -- Coalition: denounced in 1791 -- Spectacles -- Literature: Sheridan's School for scandal., and Watermark: Strasburg lily, dated 1805.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):: Jacobites, Politicians, Impeachments, Prisoners, Debates, Eyeglasses, Crying, and Handkerchiefs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The impeachment, or, "The father of the gang turnd. kings evidence" [graphic].

23. A fleet of transports under convoy [graphic].

Published / Created:: published as the act directs 9 Novr. 1781.
Call Number:: Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Jews, Prisoners, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A fleet of transports under convoy [graphic].

24. A fleet of transports under convoy [graphic].

Published / Created:: published as the act directs 9 Novr. 1781.
Call Number:: 781.11.09.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Jews, Prisoners, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A fleet of transports under convoy [graphic].

25. A calendar, or List of the several prisoners to be tried at the next Assizes, to be held at Thetford, in and for the said county, on Friday the 25th day of March, 1757 : the times of their commitments, their several crimes, and by whom committed

Published / Created:: [1757]
Call Number:: File 52 C149 757++
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: text
Alternative Title:: List of the several prisoners to be tried at the next Assizes, to be held at Thetford, in and for the said county, on Friday the 25th day of March, 1757
Description:: Caption title., At head of title, in upper left: Norfolk., Not in ESTC., and Signed beneath printed text by "Israel Long Esq., Sheriff". Contemporary ms. annotations in black ink along left margin of recto; docket title added in ink on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: Printed by Robert Davy, by order of the goaler
Subject (Geographic):: Norfolk (England) and England
Subject (Topic):: History and Prisoners
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A calendar, or List of the several prisoners to be tried at the next Assizes, to be held at Thetford, in and for the said county, on Friday the 25th day of March, 1757 : the times of their commitments, their several crimes, and by whom committed

26. Eliz. Jeffryes & Jno. Swan condemn'd at Chelmsford-Assizes for the murder of Mr. Josh Jeffryes [graphic]

Published / Created:: [1752]
Call Number:: 752.03.00.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Elizabeth Jeffryes and John Swan condemned at Chelmsford-Assizes
Description:: "John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffryes in their cell at Chelmsford prison; he is wearing shackles, standing to front, with head turned to look to left, hands clasped; she is seated to left with her right elbow on a table, on which lie open book, bottle and glass, supporting her face; probably frontispiece to the sitter's Life and Trial"--British Museum online catalogue., Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Two columns of verse below title: Behold two wretches here replete with guilt! Lamenting sorely for the blood they spilt ...
Publisher:: Publish'd according to act of Parlt., 1752, & sold by the printsellers of London & Westminster
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Name):: Swan, John, -1752. and Jeffryes, Elizabeth, -1752.
Subject (Topic):: Criminals, Prisoners, Shackles, and Jails
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Eliz. Jeffryes & Jno. Swan condemn'd at Chelmsford-Assizes for the murder of Mr. Josh Jeffryes [graphic]

27. The humours of the fleet [graphic].

Published / Created:: publish'd according to act of Parliament, [not before 1764]
Call Number:: 764.00.00.73+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title engraved below image., Later state, with new imprint statement, of a print published in 1749 by B. Dickinson. Cf. No. 3049 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Publication date inferred from Carington Bowles's separation of his business from his father's in 1764. Cf. Ian Maxted's London book trades, 1775-1800, page 25., "Price 6d."--Following imprint., Four columns of verse below title: Welcome, welcome, brother debtor, to this poor but merry place ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Prison courtyard -- Debtors -- Trades: goal-keeper -- Trades: prison cooks -- Games: racket -- Containers: broken pitcher -- Birds.
Publisher:: Printed for Carington Bowles, next Chapter House in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):: Fleet Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Prisons, Courtyards, Prisoners, Crows, and Snakes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The humours of the fleet [graphic].