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 throug...
Alternative Title:
Jack Sheppard drawn from the life
Description:
Titles from item.
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)
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...
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.
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...
Description:
Title from pencil notation below title.
Subject (Topic):
Allegorical drawings, Cells (Rooms & spaces), Debt, Graffiti, Prison guards, Prisoners, Prisons, Parables, and Political elections
The eleventh 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 fort...
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
"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 ...
Description:
Title from item.
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 ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, no. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"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 e...
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.
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
"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 e...
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.
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
In this anti-Jacobin, pro-Girondist print, seven prisoners, in various postures of distress and exclamation are seated on stools in a prison cell. Each one wears a feathered Liberty cap and each is tied to the cell wall by a rope around his neck. The ...
Alternative Title:
Commissioners become hostages and French vermin in the German trap
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Aitken, No. 14 Castle Street, Leicester Fields, London
Subject (Geographic):
France and Austria
Subject (Name):
Dumouriez, Charles François Du Périer, 1739-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Girondists, Prisons, Cells (Rooms & spaces), Prisoners, Liberty cap, History, Campaigns, Foreign public opinion, British, and Foreign relations
"Two prostitutes sit weeping on a bank (left); two heavily shackled convicts stand beside them (right). A jailer with a pistol in his belt standing behind the women points sternly to a ship in the background. On a hill in the background a body hangs f...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
Subject (Topic):
Penal transportation, Gallows, Handguns, Prisoners, Prostitutes, Shackles, Ships, and British
Plate [175] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; Percy Kirke standing in a yard, gesturning towards building at left defiantly as two women kneeling at right plead with him, a prisoner being taken away behind at right."--British Museu...
Alternative Title:
Treachery of Colonel Kirke, 1685
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 52 Box D305
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A prisoner (the foreman) bound in chains and 'Thimble' stand before two justices, writing furiously in open volumes, and respond to the exclamation "You're upon oath Sir!"
Description:
Title from pencil inscription in the artist's hand below image.
Subject (Topic):
Judges, Courtrooms, Judicial proceedings, and Prisoners
"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 ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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
"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 ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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
"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 ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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
Three-quarter length portrait of John Bellingham, assassin of the Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, standing in profile to the right, holding an open letter in his left hand and his right hand on the rail
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bellingham, John, 1770-1812,, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812., and Bellingham, John, 1770-1812.
Subject (Topic):
Assassins, Prisoners, Trials (Murder), Assassinations, Criminals, and Judicial proceedings
Portrait of John ('Jack') Sheppard, three-quarter length in prison cell, seated to left with hands in chains and head turned to right; wearing plain coat and necktie, his hair cut short; after Thornhill. Sheppard was a notorious thief who was famous ...
"Broadside with four columns of prose and three woodcuts, one along the top with a line of 19 hanged persons, and in the centre two scenes, one of a man slitting the throat of a boy, the other of a man in prison surrounded by his weeping family."--Bri...
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
J. Catnach, printer, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Executions and executioners, Hangings (Executions), Homicides, Prisoners, and Cells (Rooms & spaces)
Carte-de-visite photographs of Sioux and Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, Fort Snelling, Fort Garry; of Red River train carts in St. Paul; and of people escaping from the Red River uprising. There are many portraits of Sioux Indians, some of them identi...
Description:
Title and dates from typescript title page.
Subject (Geographic):
Minnesota. and Minnesota
Subject (Name):
Bishop Seabury Mission.
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Wars, 1862-1865, Indians of North America, Prisoners, and History
Three cartes-de-visite photographs of Santee Sioux (Dakota) Indian prisoners Sha-Kpe (Little Six), his family, and Wa-Kan-O-Zhan-Zhan (Medicine Bottle), and 16 views of Minneapolis and St. Paul and environs, including Rain Bluff, Silvery Falls, Fairy ...
Description:
Advertisement for Martin's Art Gallery on some mounts.
Publisher:
Martin's Art Gallery
Subject (Geographic):
Minnesota., Saint Paul (Minn.), Minneapolis (Minn.), and Minnesota
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Dakota Indians, Wars, 1862-1865, and Prisoners
