Accession number
PML 136667.294
Published
[London : G. Smeeton?, 1824]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Engraved portrait of English banker and forger Henry Fauntleroy by Cooper illustrating a broadside entitled A faithful narrative of the last moments and execution of the ill-fated Henry Fauntleroy, Esquire, banker, at Newgate, on Tuesday, November 30, 1824; with engraved imprint, "Published by G. Smeeton 3, Old Bailey, 30. October 1824."; this copy possibly excised from a copy of the broadside or printed and issued separately.
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark to 120 x 97 mm, with probable loss of imprint.
Mounted onto a leaf from an album of collected song sheets and broadsides (PML 136667) the individual folios disbound and housed in two boxes.
Engraved portrait of English banker and forger Henry Fauntleroy by Cooper illustrating a broadside entitled A faithful narrative of the last moments and execution of the ill-fated Henry Fauntleroy, Esquire, banker, at Newgate, on Tuesday, November 30, 1824; with engraved imprint, "Published by G. Smeeton 3, Old Bailey, 30. October 1824."; this copy possibly excised from a copy of the broadside or printed and issued separately.
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark to 120 x 97 mm, with probable loss of imprint.
Mounted onto a leaf from an album of collected song sheets and broadsides (PML 136667) the individual folios disbound and housed in two boxes.
Description
1 print : stipple engraving ; sheet: 120 x 97 mm, closely trimmed
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Head and shoulders portrait of the forger Henry Fauntleroy, facing slightly right.
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