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"Don't tell me of Major Semple! Why Major Semple's no more to be compar'd to this here rascal, than I am, to my Lord Kenyon or Buonapartè!"
Title
"Don't tell me of Major Semple! Why Major Semple's no more to be compar'd to this here rascal, than I am, to my Lord Kenyon or Buonapartè!" [graphic] / J. Gillray ad. viv. fect.
Publication
[London] : Publishd. Novr. 18th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London, [18 November 1801]
Physical Description
1 print : etching, aquatint, & stipple engraving ; plate mark 25.4 x 20.5 cm, on sheet 26 x 21 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Swindler -- Thomas Ogle -- Major Semple -- William Smith -- Thomas Robison -- Batty -- Captain Johnson -- Thomas Bashford -- Robertson -- Lieut. Colt. Cs. Pullen.
Notes
Title from quotation etched above image.
Text below title: Townsend, Pole. Officer, Bow Street.
Provenance
From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"Bust portrait in an oval. Scarcely a caricature but a study in facial expression of a cornered swindler. A man, fashionably dressed, but with dishevelled hair, gazes fixedly to the left, with pursed mouth and wrinkled forehead. Below the design is a list of eight names ('alias' repeated seven times) beginning: 'Mr Thos Ogle (the Notorious Swindler) - by which Name he Married Two Wives', and ending: 'Vide - his Examinations before the Magistrates of Bow Street in Novr 1801'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 19, 2008
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 9763
Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, p. 368
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1801.
Portrait prints - England - 1801.
Etchings - England - London - 1801.
Aquatints - England - London - 1801.
Stipple engravings - England - London - 1801.
Watermarks (Paper) - J Ruse - 1799.
Watermarks (Paper) - J. Ruse.
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