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Elizabeth Canning convicted of Perjury. May ye 7th 1754. Price 3 pence.
[n.d. c.1754.]
Engraving. Sheet 175 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed. Vertical crease.
Elizabeth Canning (1734-73), an 18-year-old London maidservant, claimed to have been kidnapped on New Year's Day and held for a month in a brothel in Enfield. She accused `Mother Wells', the madam of the establishment, of trying to force her to become a prostitute. A hideous gypsy crone staying in the house, Mary Squires, cut off the girl's stays (worth 10 shillings), and Elizabeth was imprisoned in an attic with only a few crusts of bread and a jug of water to live on. On January 29th she escaped through a window and walked all the way back to her mother's house in the City. Squires and Wells were apprehended, and tried at the Old Bailey; the former was condemned to be hanged, and the latter was burned in the hand and imprisoned. However opinion turned against Canning and new evidence led her to be charged with perjury and transported for seven years.
CS 36.ii.
[Ref: 53153] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1754.]
Engraving. Sheet 175 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed. Vertical crease.
Elizabeth Canning (1734-73), an 18-year-old London maidservant, claimed to have been kidnapped on New Year's Day and held for a month in a brothel in Enfield. She accused `Mother Wells', the madam of the establishment, of trying to force her to become a prostitute. A hideous gypsy crone staying in the house, Mary Squires, cut off the girl's stays (worth 10 shillings), and Elizabeth was imprisoned in an attic with only a few crusts of bread and a jug of water to live on. On January 29th she escaped through a window and walked all the way back to her mother's house in the City. Squires and Wells were apprehended, and tried at the Old Bailey; the former was condemned to be hanged, and the latter was burned in the hand and imprisoned. However opinion turned against Canning and new evidence led her to be charged with perjury and transported for seven years.
CS 36.ii.
[Ref: 53153] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Thomas Carr (late an attorneny in the Temple) was Executed at Tyburn the 18th day of Jan.y 1737 for robing (in Company with Elizabeth Adams) Mr W.m Quarrington in the Angel Tavern Temple-bar.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1737].
Rare engraving. Sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed within plate, creased.
Thomas Carr was vestry clerk of the parish of St Paul, Covent Garden. He and Elizabeth Adams (with whom he lived) stole ninety-three guineas and a diamond ring from William Quarrington. At Tyburn the pair kissed and held hands as the cart moved away from under their feet.
See Item 62246 for the matching portrait of Elizabeth Adams.
[Ref: 53146] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1737].
Rare engraving. Sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed within plate, creased.
Thomas Carr was vestry clerk of the parish of St Paul, Covent Garden. He and Elizabeth Adams (with whom he lived) stole ninety-three guineas and a diamond ring from William Quarrington. At Tyburn the pair kissed and held hands as the cart moved away from under their feet.
See Item 62246 for the matching portrait of Elizabeth Adams.
[Ref: 53146] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Stephen College. The Protestant Joiner.
[n.d., engraved c.1670, printed c.1820.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"). Slight foxing. Trimmed within plate on three sides.
A portrait of Stephen College (also Colledge, c.1635-81), with a skull in the background. A joiner by trade, he aided the fabricated Popish Plot by writing ballads and polemics against catholics and lawyers. He was tried and executed for high treason in Oxford in 1681.
[Ref: 53147] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., engraved c.1670, printed c.1820.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"). Slight foxing. Trimmed within plate on three sides.
A portrait of Stephen College (also Colledge, c.1635-81), with a skull in the background. A joiner by trade, he aided the fabricated Popish Plot by writing ballads and polemics against catholics and lawyers. He was tried and executed for high treason in Oxford in 1681.
[Ref: 53147] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
![An Exact Representation of the Execution of W.m Cundell & J. Smith for High Treason at the County Goal [sic]](jpegs/53150.jpg)
An Exact Representation of the Execution of W.m Cundell & J. Smith for High Treason at the County Goal [sic] Horse-monger-lane Surry. Monday March 16th 1812.
[n.d., c.1812.]
Rare etching. Sheet 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed and mounted in album paper.
William Cundell and John Smith were among a group of British sailors captured by the French on Mauritius. During their captivity about fifty collaborated with their captors, acting as prison guards. When the British recaptured the island most of the collaborators left with the French; of the remainder most were transported but only Cundell and Smith were sentenced to be hanged, having been chosen by lot. They were hung on the roof of Horsemonger Lane Gaol (today a public park, Newington Gardens), the last public execution for high treason in Britain.
[Ref: 53150] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1812.]
Rare etching. Sheet 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed and mounted in album paper.
William Cundell and John Smith were among a group of British sailors captured by the French on Mauritius. During their captivity about fifty collaborated with their captors, acting as prison guards. When the British recaptured the island most of the collaborators left with the French; of the remainder most were transported but only Cundell and Smith were sentenced to be hanged, having been chosen by lot. They were hung on the roof of Horsemonger Lane Gaol (today a public park, Newington Gardens), the last public execution for high treason in Britain.
[Ref: 53150] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Executie der Conspirateurs Tegens de Persoon des Konings van Engeland.
P. v d B. in fec. [Pieter van den Berge.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 190 x 280mm (7½ x 11"). Binding folds, repaired tear top left.
A scene of the hanging, drawing and quartering of 'conspirators against the person of the king of England', probably the Monmouth rebels of 1685, against James II. From the offset on the reverse, this is likely to have been published in the 'Europische Mercurius', a Dutch newspaper. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688 any adverse view of James was widely disseminated.
[Ref: 53140] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
P. v d B. in fec. [Pieter van den Berge.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 190 x 280mm (7½ x 11"). Binding folds, repaired tear top left.
A scene of the hanging, drawing and quartering of 'conspirators against the person of the king of England', probably the Monmouth rebels of 1685, against James II. From the offset on the reverse, this is likely to have been published in the 'Europische Mercurius', a Dutch newspaper. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688 any adverse view of James was widely disseminated.
[Ref: 53140] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Joseph Hunton, at the Bar of the Old Bailey: Tried for Forgery on October 28th 1828.
Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Published by McLean, 26, Haymarket. [n.d., c.1828.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Tear taped on left.
Joseph Hunton, a Quaker, a partner in the firm of Dickson & Co., forged bills of exchange by signing them with the name of a dead colleague. He fled to Plymouth, where he was on a ship bound for New York when he was apprehended. Found guitly, he was executed by famed hangman John Foxton at Newgate in December.
[Ref: 53144] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Published by McLean, 26, Haymarket. [n.d., c.1828.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Tear taped on left.
Joseph Hunton, a Quaker, a partner in the firm of Dickson & Co., forged bills of exchange by signing them with the name of a dead colleague. He fled to Plymouth, where he was on a ship bound for New York when he was apprehended. Found guitly, he was executed by famed hangman John Foxton at Newgate in December.
[Ref: 53144] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Execution of the rebels on Kennington Common in the year 1746.
[n.d., c.1795.]
Engraving. Sheet 205 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Small margins on 3 sides. Stitch marks affecting plate mark on right, foxing.
The execution of the officers of the Jacobite 'Manchester Regiment', English catholics who supported the 1745 rebellion, on 30th July. Their leader, Francis Towneley, was hung, drawn and quartered (although by that time the hanging would be terminal) and his head placed on a pike on Temple Bar.
[Ref: 53143] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1795.]
Engraving. Sheet 205 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Small margins on 3 sides. Stitch marks affecting plate mark on right, foxing.
The execution of the officers of the Jacobite 'Manchester Regiment', English catholics who supported the 1745 rebellion, on 30th July. Their leader, Francis Towneley, was hung, drawn and quartered (although by that time the hanging would be terminal) and his head placed on a pike on Temple Bar.
[Ref: 53143] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
The ducking of John Osbourn & his wife on a charge of Witchcraft.
[London: Alexander Hogg, 1795.]
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 115mm (7¼ x 4¼"). Slightly time stained.
In 1751 John and Ruth Osbourne were seized from a workhouse in Tring and accused of witchcraft. Both were ducked in a pond in Wilstone, but one of the leaders, Thomas Colley, held Ruth down with a stick until she drowned. Colley was convicted of murder and hanged in chains at Gubblecote Cross. From Hogg's 'New and Complete Newgate Calendar'.
[Ref: 53142] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
[London: Alexander Hogg, 1795.]
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 115mm (7¼ x 4¼"). Slightly time stained.
In 1751 John and Ruth Osbourne were seized from a workhouse in Tring and accused of witchcraft. Both were ducked in a pond in Wilstone, but one of the leaders, Thomas Colley, held Ruth down with a stick until she drowned. Colley was convicted of murder and hanged in chains at Gubblecote Cross. From Hogg's 'New and Complete Newgate Calendar'.
[Ref: 53142] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Mess.rs Robert and Daniel Perreau.
[c.1776.]
Rare etching. Sheet 180 x 135mm (7 x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Daniel Perreau and his twin brother Robert were put on trial for forgery, alongside Daniel's lover Margaret Caroline Rudd. Her defence was that she was their helpless victim, so she was set free and the brothers executed. She later had an affair with James Boswell.
[Ref: 53151] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[c.1776.]
Rare etching. Sheet 180 x 135mm (7 x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Daniel Perreau and his twin brother Robert were put on trial for forgery, alongside Daniel's lover Margaret Caroline Rudd. Her defence was that she was their helpless victim, so she was set free and the brothers executed. She later had an affair with James Boswell.
[Ref: 53151] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Martha Ray] Miss Martha Reay.](jpegs/53154.jpg)
[Martha Ray] Miss Martha Reay.
T. Steventon Pinx.t.
Publish'd June 7.th. 1779.
Rare stipple. Sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Trimmed and mounted in album paper.
A half portrait in an oval of Martha Ray (1742-79), a singer who was the mistress of John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, by whom she had nine children. On 7th April, a jealous admirer, James Hackman, murdered her at the Royal Opera House, for which he was executed at Tyburn.
[Ref: 53154] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
T. Steventon Pinx.t.
Publish'd June 7.th. 1779.
Rare stipple. Sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Trimmed and mounted in album paper.
A half portrait in an oval of Martha Ray (1742-79), a singer who was the mistress of John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, by whom she had nine children. On 7th April, a jealous admirer, James Hackman, murdered her at the Royal Opera House, for which he was executed at Tyburn.
[Ref: 53154] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Charles Rennett. Convicted at the Old Bailey of May 28th 1819 of Child Stealing.
Published by R. Ackermann June 1st 1819.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 290 x 205mm (11½ x 8") very large margins. Slight soiling.
By sweet-talking a nursery-servant, Rennett kidnapped the three-year-old son of his first cousin, who had inherited an estate that Rennett felt should have been his. He absconded to Germany, where he was apprehended and brought back to England. Found guilty, Rennett was sentenced to seven years' transportation to Australia.
53141 See 53521 for a portrait of the victim.
[Ref: 53141] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Published by R. Ackermann June 1st 1819.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 290 x 205mm (11½ x 8") very large margins. Slight soiling.
By sweet-talking a nursery-servant, Rennett kidnapped the three-year-old son of his first cousin, who had inherited an estate that Rennett felt should have been his. He absconded to Germany, where he was apprehended and brought back to England. Found guilty, Rennett was sentenced to seven years' transportation to Australia.
53141 See 53521 for a portrait of the victim.
[Ref: 53141] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Mrs. Margaret Caroline Rudd.
[c.1770]
Rare engraving. Sheet 170 x 90mm (6¾ x 3½"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Mrs Rudd (c.1745-c.1798) in jail, was charged with forging a bond, alongside Daniel Perreau, her lover, and his twin brother Robert. At the trial she pretended that she was their helpless victim, so she was set free and the brothers executed. She later had an affair with James Boswell.
[Ref: 53136] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
[c.1770]
Rare engraving. Sheet 170 x 90mm (6¾ x 3½"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Mrs Rudd (c.1745-c.1798) in jail, was charged with forging a bond, alongside Daniel Perreau, her lover, and his twin brother Robert. At the trial she pretended that she was their helpless victim, so she was set free and the brothers executed. She later had an affair with James Boswell.
[Ref: 53136] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
![[Margaret Caroline Rudd] Mrs Rudd.](jpegs/53135.jpg)
[Margaret Caroline Rudd] Mrs Rudd.
[c.1775.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 110mm (6 x 4") Slight offset. Trimmed to plate and mounted in album paper.
Mrs Rudd (c.1745-c.1798) was charged with forging a bond, alongside Daniel Perreau, her lover, and his twin brother Robert. At the trial she pretended that she was their helpless victim, so she was set free and the brothers executed. She later had an affair with James Boswell.
[Ref: 53135] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
[c.1775.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 110mm (6 x 4") Slight offset. Trimmed to plate and mounted in album paper.
Mrs Rudd (c.1745-c.1798) was charged with forging a bond, alongside Daniel Perreau, her lover, and his twin brother Robert. At the trial she pretended that she was their helpless victim, so she was set free and the brothers executed. She later had an affair with James Boswell.
[Ref: 53135] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Mary Squires the Gypsy, who was Condemned for Stripping Eliza. Canning, at Endfield Wash; and has since obtain'd his Majesty's most Gracious Pardon.
Drawn from the Life, by the Honourable R_d E_d and Etch'd by Tho.s Worlidge, Painter in the Little Piazza, Covent Garden.
[Etched c.1754, but on wove paper watermarked 1812.]
Etching. 205 x 160mm (8 x 6½") very large margins.
An 18-year-old London maidservant called Elizabeth Canning claimed to have been kidnapped on New Year's Day and held for a month, in a brothel in Enfield. She accused `Mother Wells', the madam of the establishment, of trying to force her to become a prostitute. A hideous gypsy crone staying in the house, Mary Squires, cut off the girl's stays (worth 10 shillings), and Elizabeth was imprisoned in an attic with only a few crusts of bread and a jug of water to live on. On January 29th she escaped through a window and walked all the way back to her mother's house in the City. Squires and Wells were apprehended, and tried at the Old Bailey; the former was condemned to be hanged, and the latter was burned in the hand and imprisoned. However opinion turned against Canning and new evidence led her to be charged with perjury and transported for seven years.
[Ref: 53203] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn from the Life, by the Honourable R_d E_d and Etch'd by Tho.s Worlidge, Painter in the Little Piazza, Covent Garden.
[Etched c.1754, but on wove paper watermarked 1812.]
Etching. 205 x 160mm (8 x 6½") very large margins.
An 18-year-old London maidservant called Elizabeth Canning claimed to have been kidnapped on New Year's Day and held for a month, in a brothel in Enfield. She accused `Mother Wells', the madam of the establishment, of trying to force her to become a prostitute. A hideous gypsy crone staying in the house, Mary Squires, cut off the girl's stays (worth 10 shillings), and Elizabeth was imprisoned in an attic with only a few crusts of bread and a jug of water to live on. On January 29th she escaped through a window and walked all the way back to her mother's house in the City. Squires and Wells were apprehended, and tried at the Old Bailey; the former was condemned to be hanged, and the latter was burned in the hand and imprisoned. However opinion turned against Canning and new evidence led her to be charged with perjury and transported for seven years.
[Ref: 53203] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Jo:h Weston.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼") with large margins. Very slight printer's crease.
Joseph Weston and his brother George were believed to be respectable Winchelsea citizens, but were actually highwaymen who became known for robbing the Bath and Bristol Mail coach in 1781, between Maidenhead and Hounslow. Acquitted for lack of evidence, they were hung at Tyburn for attempted murder the following year. William Makepeace Thackery's unfinished novel 'Denis Duval' featured the pair.
[Ref: 53145] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼") with large margins. Very slight printer's crease.
Joseph Weston and his brother George were believed to be respectable Winchelsea citizens, but were actually highwaymen who became known for robbing the Bath and Bristol Mail coach in 1781, between Maidenhead and Hounslow. Acquitted for lack of evidence, they were hung at Tyburn for attempted murder the following year. William Makepeace Thackery's unfinished novel 'Denis Duval' featured the pair.
[Ref: 53145] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Jonathan Wild going to the Place of Execution.
[London: Olive Payne, 1736.]
Engraving. 315 x 205mm (12½ x 8"). Small tears in edges. 2 very small holes on right centre. Trimmed to plate on right.
Soldiers leading Jonathan Wild (c.1682-1725) past St Sepulchre's Church on Skinner Street on the way to the gallows at Tyburn. Wild was known as the ''Thief-Taker General'' for apprehending criminals, most notably Jack Sheppard the highwayman. However he was a gang-master himself, protecting his associates and arresting his conspirators. Eventually he was caught out and executed: his skeletal remains are on public display in the Royal College's Hunterian Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
[Ref: 53149] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[London: Olive Payne, 1736.]
Engraving. 315 x 205mm (12½ x 8"). Small tears in edges. 2 very small holes on right centre. Trimmed to plate on right.
Soldiers leading Jonathan Wild (c.1682-1725) past St Sepulchre's Church on Skinner Street on the way to the gallows at Tyburn. Wild was known as the ''Thief-Taker General'' for apprehending criminals, most notably Jack Sheppard the highwayman. However he was a gang-master himself, protecting his associates and arresting his conspirators. Eventually he was caught out and executed: his skeletal remains are on public display in the Royal College's Hunterian Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
[Ref: 53149] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Beheading S.r Tho.s Wyatt.
Terry sculp Paternoster Row.
Published as the Act directs [****] for H. Trapp Paternoster Row. [1784.]
Engraving. 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾"). Trimmed from larger sheet.
The executition of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1521-1554), leader of Wyatt's Rebellion against Mary I. From Foxe's 'New and Complete Book of Martyrs'', updated by Paul Wright.
[Ref: 53148] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Terry sculp Paternoster Row.
Published as the Act directs [****] for H. Trapp Paternoster Row. [1784.]
Engraving. 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾"). Trimmed from larger sheet.
The executition of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1521-1554), leader of Wyatt's Rebellion against Mary I. From Foxe's 'New and Complete Book of Martyrs'', updated by Paul Wright.
[Ref: 53148] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)