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Thos: Simmons.
Thos: Simmons.
Published Novr. 6 1807 by T. Medland Hertford.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Lacking some margin.
Caricature portrait of prisoner Thomas Simmons who was executed at Hertford jail on 7th of March, 1808, for a double murder at a Quaker family home at Hoddesdon.
[Ref: 26891]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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Tho.s Simmons.
Tho.s Simmons. Murderer of Mrs Warner and Mrs Hummerstone, at Hoddeston in Hertfordshire.
[n.d., c.1808.]
Aquatint with etching. Sheet 245 x 145mm (9¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed within plate, bit dusty.
Portrait of prisoner Thomas Simmons who was executed at Hertford jail on 7th of March, 1808, for a double murder of a Quaker family home at Hoddesdon.
[Ref: 62105]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Thomas Simmons. The horrid and inhuman Murderer of Mr. Hummerston and Mrs. Warner at the house of is Mr Boreham a Quaker at Hoddesdon ins Hertfordshire on Tuesday Evening. October th.20 1807.
Thomas Simmons. The horrid and inhuman Murderer of Mr. Hummerston and Mrs. Warner at the house of is Mr Boreham a Quaker at Hoddesdon ins Hertfordshire on Tuesday Evening. October th.20 1807. From a Correct likeness Drawn from the Life by Mr. Angelo.
Etched and Pub.d by T. Rowlandson Nov.r 9. 1807 N.1 Tames St. Adelphi.
Coloured etching. 250 x 160mm (10 x 6¼"). Trimmed into plate at bottom. Some foxing.
A caricature portrait of Thomas Simmons, who murdered two people in Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire. A former servant at the house of the Boreham family, Simmons was sacked for brutish behaviour. He returned one evening to confront another servant who had been his girlfriend. Pushing his way into the house, he stabbed a guest, Sarah Hummerstone, in the jugular, then one of Boreham's daughters in the neck and breast. He was then disarmed, the alarm raised and he was found in a cow-crib. He was beaten, bound and taken to the Black Bull Inn, where he nearly died from the tightness of the ligatures, before being transferred to Hertford jail to await trial. There he was sketched by Henry Angelo (1756-1835), the fencing master friend of Rowlandson. Found guilty, Simmons was hanged on the 7th March 1808, After Henry Angelo.
[Ref: 61879]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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John Smith cut down at Tyburn,
John Smith cut down at Tyburn, in consequence of a reprieve which came five Minutes after he had been turned off.
Dodd delin Page sculp [c.1770]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed.
John Smith (c.1661-1727), London housebreaker famed for evading execution on three occasions. This print shows him being cut down from the gallows in 1705 after a reprieve was granted. He was eventually transported to Virginia in 1727. Engraving published in the 'Tyburn Chronicle'.
[Ref: 46577]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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Layton Smith.
Layton Smith.
J. Faber Fecit 1754.
Mezzotint. Plate: 330 x 225mm (13 x 9").
Small margins.
A portrait of Layton Smith who was imprisoned in Fleet Prison for debt, while there, he vowed never to cut his hair until his release though unfortunately, he died there.
[Ref: 46471]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Mary Squires the Gypsy, who was Condemned for Stripping Eliza. Canning, at Endfield Wash;
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)
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Mary Squires the Gypsy.
Mary Squires the Gypsy.
[n.d. c.1755.]
Engraving. 130 x 95mm (5 x 3¾"). Thread margins.
An 18-year-old London maidservant called Elizabeth Canning claimed to have been kidnapped on New Year's Day 1753 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: 58658]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Jno. Thurtell. Jos. Hunt. W.m Probert.
Jno. Thurtell. Jos. Hunt. W.m Probert.
[Knight & Lacey, Publishers, 24, Paternoster Row.]
Stipple with etching. Sheet 115 x 195mm (4½ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line. Slight creasing on left.
A portrait of John Thurtell (1794-1824) and his two friends, Joseph Hunt and William Probert, on trial for the murder of solicitor William Weare. Thurtell, a Royal Marine officer, amateur boxer and promoter, owed Weare a £300 gambling debt. Rather than pay he invited him for a weekend of gambling and, on the journey in his gig, first shot Weare in the face, then slit his throat and finally bashed his brains out with his pistol. Such was the publicity of the trial that Madame Tussauds exhibited a waxwork of Thurtell for 150 years after his execution.
[Ref: 58078]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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Alfred Vidil [facsimile signature.]
Alfred Vidil [facsimile signature.]
A. D'Orsay fecit. 23 Mai 1840.
London, Published by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33. Old Bond St.
Lithograph on india. Sheet 381 x 286mm. 15 x 11¼". Very small repaired hole below image.
Baron de Vidil, Alfred Vidil, was the son of a glove-maker at Nancy in France. He came to England around 1830 and was in the employment of a wholesale glove warehouse in Bread-street, Cheapside. He managed to induce Miss Jackson to marry him, the daughter of Mr. Jackson, of Chapel-street, Grosvenor Place. Her father was a man of considerable wealth, but refused to acknowledge her marriage to Vidil, and therefore on the birth of their son, he relented so far as to leave her the sum of £30,000 away from her husband and eventually settled on their son. Following the death of Mr Jackson and later Miss Jackson, Vidil started to loose wealth and could only survive on that of his son. He became embarrassed by his circumstances that he planned and attempted to execute the horrible crime of murdering his only son.
[Ref: 23386]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[A collection of prints relating to the Trial of Governor Wall.]
[A collection of prints relating to the Trial of Governor Wall.]
[n.d., c.1802.]
5 etchings on four album sheets. Sheets: 120 x 200mm (4¾ x 8"). Laid on album sheets, trimmed, some paper tone.
A collection of five etchings showing various scenes from the life and trial of Joseph Wall (1727-1802), Lieutenant Governor of Gorée near Senegal who was tried and executed for the fatal flogging of one of his soldiers. The collection contains a prospect of Gorée, a portrait of Wall, a scene showing the fatal flogging, Wall in prison and his execution.
[Ref: 41609]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
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Perkin Warbeck.
Perkin Warbeck.
R. Parr Sculp.
[n.d. c.1760].
Engraving. 105 x 175mm. Light foxing in margins.
Pretender who claimed to be Richard, duke of York, the second son of Edward V and was hanged at Tyburn [1474 - 1499]. The full confession of his imposture was printed at the command of King Henry VII.
[Ref: 4540]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
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Geo.e Weston.
Geo.e Weston.
Pub: by W. Turner, Snow Hill, Aug; 8.th 1782.
Engraving, rare. Plate: 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½'') large margins. Creasing.
A portrait of highwayman George Weston shown holding a pistol. George Weston and his brother Joseph were executed at Tyburn after a long career in crime which included fraud, forgery, theft and horse stealing though their most famous crime was the robbing of a Royal Mail coach which was carrying about £10,000.
[Ref: 48224]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Jo:h Weston.
Jo:h Weston.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼") with wide 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)
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A Man Publickly Whipped, in the Sessions House Yard in the Old Bailey.
A Man Publickly Whipped, in the Sessions House Yard in the Old Bailey.
Dodd delin. White sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet 195 x 115mm (7¾ x 4½"). Trimmed within plate at sides.
An illustration from the 'Malefactors Register, or, a Tyburn and Newgate Calendar'.
[Ref: 62102]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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Mary Wilcox,
Mary Wilcox, of Witheridge, Devonshire, alias Caraboo.
Drawn & Engraved by N. Bramwhite.
Published by J.M. Gutch Augt. 16th. 1817.
Stipple engraving, sheet 250 x 150mm. 9¾ x 6". Tatty and chipped extremities.
Mary Baker, born Mary Wilcox, alias 'Princess Caraboo'. She arrived one day in the spring of 1817 at Knole Park near Bristol. By speaking a made-up language and not a word of English, she convinced the lady of the house, Elizabeth Worrall, that she was a lost noblewoman from the East Indies. She stayed with the Worralls for a few months, until one day she ran away to Bath. She was spotted in the Circus by a family friend Dr Wilkinson, the proprietor of the Pump Rooms, who followed her as far as the Pack Horse. He took her to some ladies in Russell Street, who gave her tea and treated her like the royalty they believed her to be, until Mrs Worrall arrived to fetch her home in the evening. Dr Wilkinson, a polymath and scientific lecturer (who later lived at 55 Great Pulteney Street and introduced gas lighting to Bath), had been very intrigued by Caraboo and her language when visiting the Worralls, and had written a long description of her in the Bath Chronicle a few days earlier. The article was published at his request in several other newspapers, and it was not long before the story was read in Bristol by a woman who recognised the description of Mary Baker and her eccentric behaviour. Just as Dr Wilkinson in Bath was launching an appeal to send the poor lost Caraboo home, Mrs Worrall in Bristol was being told that her house-guest was a fraud. The story created a sensation in the local and national press, and Dr Wilkinson in particular became the object of much merriment. Frontispiece to John Matthew Gutch's 'Caraboo. A Narrative of a Singular Imposition practised upon the benevolence of a lady residing in the vicinity of the City of Bristol, By a young Woman of the name of Mary Willcocks, alias Baker, alias Bakerstendht, alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu', 1817. After Nathan Cooper Branwhite (1775 - 1857), painter, miniature painter and engraver.
[Ref: 9651]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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Jonathan Wild going to the Place of Execution.
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)
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James Wood.
James Wood. Executed August 5th 1808, for the Murder of Two Women at Cumberland.
[n.d., c.1808.]
Etching. Plate: 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") large margins.
A portrait of murderer James Wood who was executed for the double murder of Margaret Smith and Jane Pattinson in 1808.
[Ref: 46842]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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The Beheading S.r Tho.s Wyatt.
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)
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