Crime & Punishment - Crime

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 Watchman’s 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 Göttinger 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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