print;
book-illustration(?)
- Museum number
- G,5.199
- Title
- Object: The Murder of Thomas Thynn Esq in Pall Mall
- Description
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Two highwaymen on horseback, pointing pistols at a carriage that has been stopped in Pall Mall; one of them Christopher Uratz, who was later tried and executed for the murder of Thomas Thynne.
Etching and engraving with letterpress below
- Production date
- 1740 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 286 millimetres
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Height: 355 millimetres
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Width: 190 millimetres (image)
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Width: 205 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Possibly an illustration to an edition of Captn Alexander Smith's (pseud.) 'History of the Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen'. For further comment see 1875,0612.364
For a note on Crowle's extra-illustrated Pennant see G,1.1
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1811
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- G,5.199
