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18th Century Material Culture

Crime

William Hogarth
The 4 Stages of Cruelty

The Four Stages of Cruelty


by William Hogarth 1751

The Four Stages of Cruelty


by William Hogarth 1751

The Four Stages of Cruelty: CRUELTY IN PERFECTION


by William Hogarth 1751
(Victoria & Albert)

The Four Stages of Cruelty


by William Hogarth 1751

Highway
Robbery

James Hind robbing Colonel Harrison in Maidenhead Thicket


From A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, &c (1734)
by Captain Charles Johnson

Mull Sack robbing the Oxford Wagon


From A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, &c (1734)
by Captain Charles Johnson

Claude Du Vall robbing Squire Roper, Master of the Buckhounds to King Charles II, in Windsor Forest
From A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, &c (1734)
by Captain Charles Johnson

The Golden Farmer Robbing a Tinker


From A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, &c (1734)
by Captain Charles Johnson

James Whitney robbing an old usurer, Whom he Forces to Ride Back to Front
From A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, &c (1734)
by Captain Charles Johnson

Dick Turpin Hiding in a Cave in Epping Forest


Engraving from The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin (1739), by Richard Bayes

The Highway Robbery


by David Allen (1744 - 1796)
(Yale Center for British Art)

Plunkett and Maclaine Robbing the Earl of Eglinton on Hounslow Heath in 1750

Colonel Jack Robbing Mrs. Smith going to Kentish Town


by Thomas Bowles, Printed for Robert Sayer 1767
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Colonel Jack Robbing Mrs. Smith going to Kentish Town


by Thomas Bowles, Printed for Robert Sayer 1767
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Highwayman John Rann a.k.a. SIXTEEN STRING JACK


1774

Thomas Hawkins and George Simpson Robbing the Mail near Colnbrook
Engraving from The Annals of Newgate (1776), by John Villette

CORPORAL FEAR
by Joshua Kirby 1781
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Murder

Alleged Murder of Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, in the Tower; plan of Capel's cell in the Tower, with three
men seizing Capel on the left, a razor blade in the centre, and Capel's corpse at the top right. 1683
(The British Museum)

Mathew Clark Cutting the Throat of Sarah Goldington


Engraving from The Annals of Newgate (1776), by John Villette

Mathew Clark Cutting the Throat of Sarah Goldington


Samuel Wale 1721
(Tate Gallery)

The Murder of John Hayes


Engraving from The Annals of Newgate (1776), by John Villette

The Murder of John Hayes, Catherine Hayes assisting Wood and Billings to cut off the Head from her Husband's Corpse
Engraving from The Annals of Newgate (1776), by John Villette

Catherine Hayes Burnt for the Murder of Her Husband


Engraving from The Annals of Newgate (1776), by John Villette

Perjury

Elizabeth Canning, Convicted of Perjury for False Accusation of Being Held Kidnapped
by Thos. Bowles 1754
(Ex. Collection.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd)

Shoplifting

SHOP - LIFTER DETECTED.


by Sayer & Bennett after John Collet 1778
(The British Museum)

SHOP - LIFTER DETECTED.


by Sayer & Bennett after John Collet 1787
(Yale Center for British Arts)

Night Watchmen,
Constables, Etc.

Injoured Innocence:.... the COVENT GARDEN Night Prowler in Limbs


English c. 1750 - 1780
(The British Museum)

Injoured Innocence:.... the COVENT GARDEN Night Prowler in Limbs


English c. 1750 - 1780
(The British Museum)

The Provoked Wife


by Johann Zoffany c. 1763 - 1765
(Wolverhampton Art Gallery)

THE ANATOMIST OVERTAKEN by the Watch... Carrying Off Miff W- in a HAMPER


by William Austin,London May 1773
(Wellcome Library)

THE ANATOMIST OVERTAKEN by the Watch... Carrying Off Miff W- in a HAMPER


by William Austin,London May 1773
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Night Watchman
by John Bogle 1776
(Yale Center for British Art)

Night Watchman
by John Bogle 1776
(Yale Center for British Art)

THE WESTMINSTER WATCHMAN


1784
(Private Collection)

THE WESTMINSTER WATCHMAN


1784

The WELL FED ENGLISH CONSTABLE.


by M. Darly 1771
(The British Museum)

A Watchmans Answer to the Question, What of the Night?


by John Gill, D.D. 1750

A Night Watchman Making the Rounds


by Thomas Rowlandson c. 1795 - 1800

The Midnight Magistrate


Published by Fielding & Walker 1779
(The British Museum)

THE WATCHMAN
English c. 1785 - 1795
(The British Museum)

Criminals

John Clavell, c. 1627 at the Age of 25


Engraving from A Recantation of an Ill Led Life 1628
by John Clavell

The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life Remember the Poor Prisoners
after Phillipe Boltard & Macellus Laroon II 1688, Reworked & Published after c. 1750
(The British Museum)

Portrait of Addams (fl.1763), a bearded convict. Transported to the American Plantations.

Addams Transported in the Year, 1763


A Bearded Convicted Transported to the American Colonies c. 1770
(The British Museum)

Portrait of Addams (fl.1763), a bearded convict. Transported to the American Plantations.

Twelve Etchings from Lichtenberg's Gttinger Taschenkalender Illustrating the 'Progress of Virtue and Vice'
by Daniel Chodowiecki, Published by Christian Dietrich 1777
(The British Museum)

Courts

Judge Thumb
Rule of Thumb

JUDGE THUMB
by William Humphry 1782

The Trial of M. D'Eon by a Jury of Matrons


by Anonymous 1771
(The British Museum)

Playing Cards by Robert Spofforth


"Her Mty Proclaim'd Q. of Eng. Scot. Fra. & Ireland &c. March 8, 1701/2;"
"Maresh Tallard & other French Genls brot Prison to England."
(The British Museum)

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