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    This document contains summaries of various 18th century British artworks, prints, and artifacts related to material culture, crime, and justice. It includes summaries of works by William Hogarth depicting cruelty, prints showing highway robbery and famous highwaymen, depictions of murders and execution, images related to perjury and shoplifting, portraits of night watchmen and constables, images of criminals and transported convicts, and depictions of courts and judges. The document acknowledges the sources of the images, which come from numerous museums, libraries, and private collections.

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    This document contains summaries of various 18th century British artworks, prints, and artifacts related to material culture, crime, and justice. It includes summaries of works by William Hogarth depicting cruelty, prints showing highway robbery and famous highwaymen, depictions of murders and execution, images related to perjury and shoplifting, portraits of night watchmen and constables, images of criminals and transported convicts, and depictions of courts and judges. The document acknowledges the sources of the images, which come from numerous museums, libraries, and private collections.

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    This document contains summaries of various 18th century British artworks, prints, and artifacts related to material culture, crime, and justice. It includes summaries of works by William Hogarth depicting cruelty, prints showing highway robbery and famous highwaymen, depictions of murders and execution, images related to perjury and shoplifting, portraits of night watchmen and constables, images of criminals and transported convicts, and depictions of courts and judges. The document acknowledges the sources of the images, which come from numerous museums, libraries, and private collections.

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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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