Author: Hogg, Alex, publisher
Title: Mary Frith, A.K. A. Moll Cutpurse, Thief
Description: London: Alex Hogg, 1802. A pair of engravings by unknown artists after an original painting from 1662 of Moll Cut-Purse, a notorious 17th century underworld criminal, "famous in the reign of Charles I." Image sizes: 164 x 95 mm (shown) and 145 x 101 mm (with poem below image). Wove paper, trimmed within plate marks. From scrapbook compiled by noted 19th c. British collector T. Purland in 1845. .

Keywords: Eccentrics, Freaks, Criminals


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