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Swindlers and swindling

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Images about Swindlers and swindling

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  • Two episodes about Mr. Muff and Mr. Randle at the races and being swindled out of some money. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • A Chinese man is hanging up from a rope attached to a wooden structure and resting on a bamboo stick held by two Chinese men. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A man is horrified at the high cost of a meal in a tavern while the two women whom he has entertained enjoy his discomfort. Engraving by S. Sangster, 1851, after A.L. Egg.
  • Two episodes about Mr. Muff losing money gambling at the races. Letterpress and wood engraving.

Works from the collections

12 works

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    Christopher Atkinson, a fraudster. Etching, 1786(?).

    | Date: 21 June [1786?] | Reference: 559443i
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    Proteus redivivus, or, The art of wheedling or insinuation : obtain'd by general conversation, and extracted from the several humours, inclinations, and passions of both sexes, respecting their several ages, and suiting each profession or occupation / Collected and methodized by the author of the first part of the English rogue.

    Head, Richard, 1637?-1686? | Date: 1675
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    A Chinese man is hanging up from a rope attached to a wooden structure and resting on a bamboo stick held by two Chinese men. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

    | Date: 1 Jany. 1801 | Reference: 579694i
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    The fool and the knave uncas'd or A true narrative of the abominable cheats of Vincent & Collins, two Domincan friers [sic] living in London.

    | Date: Printed in the year 1678
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    Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds / by Charles Mackay ; with facsimile title pages and reproductions of original illustrations from the editions of 1841 and 1852 ; with a foreword by Bernard M. Baruch.

    Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889. | Date: [1972, ©1932]
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