print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6972
- Title
- Object: "Don't tell me of Major Semple!-...
- Description
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The title continues: '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'. Bust portrait in an oval. Scarcely a caricature but a study in facial expression of a cornered swindler. A man, fashionably dressed, but with dishevelled hair, gazes fixedly to the left, with pursed mouth and wrinkled forehead. Below the design is a list of eight names ('alias' repeated seven times) beginning: 'Mr Thos Ogle (the Notorious Swindler) - by which Name he Married Two Wives', and ending: 'Vide - his Examinations before the Magistrates of Bow Street in Novr 1801'. 18 November 1801
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1801
- Dimensions
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Height: 254 millimetres
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Width: 205 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
Ogle was convicted at the Old Bailey on 5 Dec. and sentenced to seven years' transportation. 'Lond. Chron.', 7 Dec. 1801. For Townsend see vol. vii and Index; for Semple, BMSat 8873.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6972