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James Gillray
1756-1815
Mr. Thos. Ogle, (the notorious swindler) by which name he married two wives ... / J. Gillray. ad viv. fect.
London : Published Novr 18th 1801- by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street, [1801]
etching and aquatint, hand colored
image: 136 x 108 mm; plate mark: 254 x 205 mm; sheet: 302 x 244 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.318
Notes
At head of image: "Don't tell me of Mayor Semple! why Major Semple's no more to be compar'd to this here Rascal than I am, to my Lord Kenyon or Buonapartè!" Townsend, Pole Officer, Bow Street; text below image continues with a list of the 8 alias's under which Ogle operated, concluding with "Vide - his Examinations before the Magistrates of Bow Street in Novr 1801."
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Bust portrait Ogle in an oval, showing a fashionably dressed man with dishevelled hair.
Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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