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Eugene Aram convicted at York Assizes Aug.t 3 1759 for the Murder of Dan.l Clark of Knaresborough in the County of York [...]
Thornton Sculpt
Published by Alexr Hogg.
Rare engraving with 10pp letterpress, sheets 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Eugene Aram (d.1759), murderer and philologist, with extensive letterpress biography, as published in the 'Wonderful Magazine', which specialised in stories of eccentric and remarkable individuals. Aram was a considerably learned man, self-taught for the most part, who worked as a schoolteacher for much of his life. In 1758 the discovery of what was believed to be the skeleton of Daniel Clarke, a shoemaker from Knaresborough who disappeared in 1745 shortly after coming into money, led to Aram being named as an accomplice to Clarke's murder. Aram was tried in York in 1759, and he and the other defendant, a linen weaver named Houseman, accused each other. All of the evidence was circumstantial and Houseman turned crown's evidence in return for acquittal. Aram defended himself, and the letterpress to this print quotes Aram's speech, with its philosophic argument against the circumstantial evidence. Nevertheless a conviction was obtained and Aram was hanged at Knavesmire in 1759. The letterpress concludes by wondering how 'a man with abilities so superior, could think of embruing his hands in the blood of a fellow-creature'. While Aram's achievements as a linguist have subsequently been discredited, he was to be immortalized in Thomas Hood's ballad 'The Dream of Eugene Aram' (1829) and Edward Bulwer's eponymous novel of 1832.
[Ref: 39624] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Thornton Sculpt
Published by Alexr Hogg.
Rare engraving with 10pp letterpress, sheets 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Eugene Aram (d.1759), murderer and philologist, with extensive letterpress biography, as published in the 'Wonderful Magazine', which specialised in stories of eccentric and remarkable individuals. Aram was a considerably learned man, self-taught for the most part, who worked as a schoolteacher for much of his life. In 1758 the discovery of what was believed to be the skeleton of Daniel Clarke, a shoemaker from Knaresborough who disappeared in 1745 shortly after coming into money, led to Aram being named as an accomplice to Clarke's murder. Aram was tried in York in 1759, and he and the other defendant, a linen weaver named Houseman, accused each other. All of the evidence was circumstantial and Houseman turned crown's evidence in return for acquittal. Aram defended himself, and the letterpress to this print quotes Aram's speech, with its philosophic argument against the circumstantial evidence. Nevertheless a conviction was obtained and Aram was hanged at Knavesmire in 1759. The letterpress concludes by wondering how 'a man with abilities so superior, could think of embruing his hands in the blood of a fellow-creature'. While Aram's achievements as a linguist have subsequently been discredited, he was to be immortalized in Thomas Hood's ballad 'The Dream of Eugene Aram' (1829) and Edward Bulwer's eponymous novel of 1832.
[Ref: 39624] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
View of the Whale Fishery, &c. in Greenland. Engraved for Millar's New, Complete & Universal System of Geography.
Thornton sculp.
[London: A. Hogg, c.1782.]
Copper engraving, 285 x 175mm. 11¼ x 7".
Whales being harpooned by whaling parties form small boats launched from larger ships, in Arctic waters; polar bears on ice flows in foreground, and a walrus being shot. In distinctive decorative border, from George Henry Millar's 'The new and universal System of Geography, being a complete history and description of the whole world. ...' 1782.
[Ref: 16690] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Thornton sculp.
[London: A. Hogg, c.1782.]
Copper engraving, 285 x 175mm. 11¼ x 7".
Whales being harpooned by whaling parties form small boats launched from larger ships, in Arctic waters; polar bears on ice flows in foreground, and a walrus being shot. In distinctive decorative border, from George Henry Millar's 'The new and universal System of Geography, being a complete history and description of the whole world. ...' 1782.
[Ref: 16690] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![An Animal found on the Coast of New Holland, [called] Kangaroo.](jpegs/43948.jpg)
An Animal found on the Coast of New Holland, [called] Kangaroo. Wonderful Museum.
Thornton sculp [after George Stubbs.]
[n.d., c.1793.]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 125mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed into title, stained.
Early engraving of a kangaroo, based on the Stubbs's illustration from Hawkesworth, but reversed and with a 'joey' in its pouch. This version was first published in Hogg's 'A new, authentic and complete collection of Voyages round the world', 1784-6, but the joey was added for this publication, a British general interest periodical.
Lennox-Boyd, Dixon & Clayton: George Stubbs, 374, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 43948] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Thornton sculp [after George Stubbs.]
[n.d., c.1793.]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 125mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed into title, stained.
Early engraving of a kangaroo, based on the Stubbs's illustration from Hawkesworth, but reversed and with a 'joey' in its pouch. This version was first published in Hogg's 'A new, authentic and complete collection of Voyages round the world', 1784-6, but the joey was added for this publication, a British general interest periodical.
Lennox-Boyd, Dixon & Clayton: George Stubbs, 374, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 43948] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)