print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1877,1013.832
- Title
- Object: James Macleane, the Gentleman Highwayman at the Bar
- Description
-
A broadside on the trial of the robber James Maclaine; with an etching showing the interior of a court room, the judges seated on the left, Maclaine standing on the right, in the middle background a lady standing, giving evidence in his favour; and with engraved title and letterpress text giving an account of the trial in three columns. ([London,] Fox: 1750)
- Production date
- 1750
- Dimensions
-
Height: 24900 millimetres (etching, cut within the plate mark)
-
Height: 406 millimetres (printed area)
-
Height: 407 millimetres
-
Width: 250 millimetres (etching, cut within the plate mark)
-
Width: 253 millimetres (printed area)
-
Width: 255 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- Maclaine's various crimes included the robbing of the Salisbury Coach at Turnham Green on 26 June 1750, disguised with a Venetian mask, and in 1749 the robbing of a gold watch from Horace Walpole.
See Sheila O'Connell, 'London 1753', BM 2003, cat.5.93, and pp.259-260. The same plate was adapted in 1754 for the trial of Elizabeth Canning (ibid cat.1.64). For another impression of the same sheet, see BM 1851-3-8-407.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1877,1013.832
