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![[Mary Carleton] The German Princess with her suppos'd Husband and Lawyer.]](jpegs/56657.jpg)
[Mary Carleton] The German Princess with her suppos'd Husband and Lawyer.]
J. Nicholls delin. I. Basire sculp.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. Sheet 315 x 205mm (12½ x 8"). Trimmed within plate.
Mary Carleton (neé Moders, 1642-73), bigamist and fraudster who often pretended to be a German princess (having lived in Cologne) or an heiress. Having defrauded many men over more than ten years, she was convicted and hanged. This scene shows her with a different con: having attracted a rich lawyer as a lover, her 'husband' bursts in with an armed servant and extorts £100 from the lawyer. Probably from 'History of the Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen' by Captain Alexander Smith (pseud.), although examples of this print were issued as a broadside with letterpress.
See National Portrait Gallery: NPG D21077 for separate issue.
[Ref: 56657] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
J. Nicholls delin. I. Basire sculp.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. Sheet 315 x 205mm (12½ x 8"). Trimmed within plate.
Mary Carleton (neé Moders, 1642-73), bigamist and fraudster who often pretended to be a German princess (having lived in Cologne) or an heiress. Having defrauded many men over more than ten years, she was convicted and hanged. This scene shows her with a different con: having attracted a rich lawyer as a lover, her 'husband' bursts in with an armed servant and extorts £100 from the lawyer. Probably from 'History of the Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen' by Captain Alexander Smith (pseud.), although examples of this print were issued as a broadside with letterpress.
See National Portrait Gallery: NPG D21077 for separate issue.
[Ref: 56657] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Nan. Holland & Tristram Savage Robbing Dr: Trotter in Moorfields. [Ann Holland, alias Andrews.. she died without the least seeming Remorse for her Wickedness.]
J: Nicholls delin. Parr Sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Etching. Plate 310 x 210mm. 12¼ x 8¼". Some tearing in the margins.
A depiction of a daring robbery of one Dr. Trotter by two notorious female criminals, Ann Holland and Tristram Savage. According to the text, Holland was hanged at the Tyburn gallows in 1705 for several robberies of wealthy households. A human skeleton hangs in Dr. Trotter's library along with the preserved body of a crocodile. Satan appears at the scene of the crime lower right.
[Ref: 15640] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
J: Nicholls delin. Parr Sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Etching. Plate 310 x 210mm. 12¼ x 8¼". Some tearing in the margins.
A depiction of a daring robbery of one Dr. Trotter by two notorious female criminals, Ann Holland and Tristram Savage. According to the text, Holland was hanged at the Tyburn gallows in 1705 for several robberies of wealthy households. A human skeleton hangs in Dr. Trotter's library along with the preserved body of a crocodile. Satan appears at the scene of the crime lower right.
[Ref: 15640] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
![[William Davies.] The Golden Farmer and the Tinker.](jpegs/41239.jpg)
[William Davies.] The Golden Farmer and the Tinker.
J. Nicholls delin J. Basire sculp [c.1736]
Engraving, platemark 310 x 200mm (12¼ x 8"). Trimmed.
William Davies (1627-90), a Welsh highwayman holding a man a gunpoint. Aged 64 he was caught and hanged at Salisbury Court (instead of Tyburn, as usual), where he had murdered a butcher, then was hung in chains on Bagshot Heath. Illustration to Captain Charles Johnson's 'General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers etc' (1736). The book contains short biographies of both historical and fictitious criminals. It has generally been accepted that Johnson was a pseudonym for another author, although claims that the author was Daniel Defoe have never been proven.
[Ref: 41239] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
J. Nicholls delin J. Basire sculp [c.1736]
Engraving, platemark 310 x 200mm (12¼ x 8"). Trimmed.
William Davies (1627-90), a Welsh highwayman holding a man a gunpoint. Aged 64 he was caught and hanged at Salisbury Court (instead of Tyburn, as usual), where he had murdered a butcher, then was hung in chains on Bagshot Heath. Illustration to Captain Charles Johnson's 'General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers etc' (1736). The book contains short biographies of both historical and fictitious criminals. It has generally been accepted that Johnson was a pseudonym for another author, although claims that the author was Daniel Defoe have never been proven.
[Ref: 41239] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
The Golden Farmer and the Tinker.
J. Nicholls delin. I. Basire sculp.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Engraving and etching. Plate 310 x 210mm (12¼ x 8¼"). Toning and some creases.
William Davis, a highwayman active in Surrey and Kent nicknamed the Golden Farmer, on horseback at left, pointing a pistol at a terrifiied tinker who drops his goods. Davis, knowing the tinker was not an honest worker (sabotaging anything he was paid to mend) and had seven or eight pounds on him, stopped and robbed him on Blackheath. Davis eventually went to the gallows in 1689, having shot dead a butcher who tried to stop him after a robbery. He was executed at the end of Sailisbury Court in Fleet Street and left to rot hanging in chains on Bagshot Heath. An illustration to an edition of Capt.n Alexander Smith's (pseud.) History of the Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen'. First published in 1714, this bestseller was republished with a variety of titles.
[Ref: 34716] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
J. Nicholls delin. I. Basire sculp.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Engraving and etching. Plate 310 x 210mm (12¼ x 8¼"). Toning and some creases.
William Davis, a highwayman active in Surrey and Kent nicknamed the Golden Farmer, on horseback at left, pointing a pistol at a terrifiied tinker who drops his goods. Davis, knowing the tinker was not an honest worker (sabotaging anything he was paid to mend) and had seven or eight pounds on him, stopped and robbed him on Blackheath. Davis eventually went to the gallows in 1689, having shot dead a butcher who tried to stop him after a robbery. He was executed at the end of Sailisbury Court in Fleet Street and left to rot hanging in chains on Bagshot Heath. An illustration to an edition of Capt.n Alexander Smith's (pseud.) History of the Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen'. First published in 1714, this bestseller was republished with a variety of titles.
[Ref: 34716] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Tho:s Savage Returning to Hannah Blay's Lodging.
J. Nicholls delin J. Basire sculp [c.1736].
Engraving, platemark 310 x 200mm (12¼ x 8"). Trimmed.
The murderer Thomas Savage (1651/2-68) at the lodgings of the prostitute Hannah Blay, who encouraged the teenaged apprentice to steal from his master. After Savage killed his master's servant, both he and Blay were hanged. Illustration to Captain Charles Johnson's 'General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers etc' (1736). The book contains short biographies of both historical and fictitious criminals. It has generally been accepted that Johnson was a pseudonym for another author, although claims that the author was Daniel Defoe have never been proven.
[Ref: 41241] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
J. Nicholls delin J. Basire sculp [c.1736].
Engraving, platemark 310 x 200mm (12¼ x 8"). Trimmed.
The murderer Thomas Savage (1651/2-68) at the lodgings of the prostitute Hannah Blay, who encouraged the teenaged apprentice to steal from his master. After Savage killed his master's servant, both he and Blay were hanged. Illustration to Captain Charles Johnson's 'General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers etc' (1736). The book contains short biographies of both historical and fictitious criminals. It has generally been accepted that Johnson was a pseudonym for another author, although claims that the author was Daniel Defoe have never been proven.
[Ref: 41241] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)