BIB_ID
197038
Accession number
MA 4500
Creator
Herring, John Frederick, 1815-1907.
Display Date
1881 Nov. 19.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; (12mo)
Notes
With an illustration of a picture forger trapped in stocks.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Saying he is going to Cambridge to confront a fellow who has two forged paintings with his or his father's name on them: "anything with a horse & poultry or pigs always gets JFH written on them - and unfortunately there is no law for us - forge a man's name on paper & penal servitude follows - forge a name on canvas & the villains can laugh at you".
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