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Autolycus
Autolycus was a thief disguised as a pedlar who appears in Shakespeare's play A Winter's Tale. He is shown here selling cheap goods and sensational printed ballads to gullible country folk. Leslie based the background sky and the ash tree at the…
Portrait of John Fawcett
Watercolour portrait depicting John Fawcett, the actor and dramatist, in the role of Autolycus in Shakespeare's 'A Winter's Tale'. Signed and dated T. C. Wageman 1828.
Claude Duval
A coach stopped by highwaymen, one bowing to the women inside, who plead or faint, others going through the luggage, one playing a pipe on the left, the gentleman sitting bound near him, watching glumly as the chief highwayman, Duval, sweeps a…
Execution of Thomas Armstrong
Engraving depicting the execution of Sir Thomas Armstrong in Tyburn, on 20 June 1684.
"A New Love Song, Only Ha' Pence A Piece"
Series: Cries of London
Plate 11, a ballad seller with strip ballads, selling to two men, around them are two women with a child, and a small boy feeding a dog.
Captain Kidd hanging in chains
Kidd was tried at the Old Bailey, London, in May 1701. He was found guilty of murder and piracy and was hanged at Execution Dock. Kidd's body was then suspended on a gibbet at Tilbury Point on the lower reaches of the Thames.
A Rake's Progress, Plate 3
A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to l., Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, another…
The Enraged Musician
A scene in London, possibly near St Martin's-in-the-Fields, with a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street; a ballad-seller chants while her baby cries, a milkmaid and other street-traders cry their wares, one…
Gin Lane
A scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners, notably a woman who lets her child fall to its death and an emaciated ballad-seller; in the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so…
The March of the Guards to Finchley
The March of the Guards to Finchley, also known as The March to Finchley or The March of the Guards, is a 1750 oil-on-canvas painting by English artist William Hogarth, owned by and on display at the Foundling Museum.
This painting depicts London…
This painting depicts London…
The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn
Series: Industry and Idleness, Plate 11
Plate 11: the place of execution with, in the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent, the Newgate chaplain in a carriage, the triple gallows, and a wooden gallery crowded with onlookers; in the…
Paul's Walk
John Franklin's illustration of Paul's Walk for William Harrison Ainsworth's novel, Old St. Paul's, published London : Chapman & Hall, 1841.
Pillory, Charing Cross
Plate 62: view of Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, with two men in the pillory in the centre surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd, on the right the equestrian statue of Charles I stands watching over the scene; illustration to the book 'Microcosm of…
Coleman drawn to his execution
"Coleman drawn to his execution"; card number 7 of a set of playing cards depicting the Popish Plot .
Last Dying Speech
This watercolour depicts a streetseller vending a batch of criminal broadsheets. In the background, crowds are watching an execution taking place outside Newgate Prison.
Great News!
Two men handing out news notices in the street. One blowing a small wind instrument.
The execution of James Graham, first Marquess of Montrose
The execution of James Graham, first Marquess of Montrose; Montrose with the hangman upon a ladder leaning against the gallows; various figures in attendance; on the right, a figure being beheaded with an axe; Edinburgh in the background.…
Tyburn Tree - Pavement Plaque
A plaque on the traffic island at Marble Arch indicates the spot where the infamous Tyburn Tree, a three-legged gallows, once stood. An estimated 50,000 people were executed here between 1571 and 1783, many having been dragged from the Tower of…
New Elegy
Plate XIV 'New Elegy' - Illustration from 'The Cries of London' 1839
Exécution de Marie Antoinette le 16 octobre 1793
Marie Antoinette's execution in 1793 at the Place de la Révolution
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Troppmann
Photographic portrait of the French murderer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann
