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Concept

Fraud

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  • Mary Toft (Tofts), who duped several doctors into believing she had given birth to a litter of rabbits: twelve episodes. Etching.
  • A performance by the "three-headed nightingale" (supposedly a woman with three heads). Reproduction of a wood engraving by E.A. Tilly.
  • A London linen-draper's assistant reveals his true identity: he is not "Horatio Sparkins", an aristocratic man about town, but Mr Smith, an assistant in a down-market shop. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • The Roman emperor Valens pours money into a coffer; an officer is arrested and led to prison. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • Mary Tofts, a woman who pretended that she had given birth to rabbits. Stipple engraving by Maddocks.
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    The Roman emperor Valens pours money into a coffer; an officer is arrested and led to prison. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

    Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614. | Date: 1622 | Reference: 26679i
    Part of: XL Emblemata miscella nova
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    Counter fraud good practice for food and drink businesses : improve fraud resilience and reduce the financial cost of fraud / Written by Eoghan Daly, Jim Gee ; with contributions from Andy Morling, Ron McNaughton.

    Chartered Institute of Environmental Health | Date: 2016
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    A woman being exhibited, supposedly with no lower half of her body. Wood engraving.

    | Reference: 2912i
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    Scientific deception : an overview and guide to the literature of misconduct and fraud in scientific research / by Lesley Grayson.

    Grayson, Lesley. | Date: [1995], ©1995
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    Laurent. Joann. Nepomucenus Reen ... plagii literarii in Regiae Fridericianae Parnasso graviter accusatus convictus atque Halensium musarum decreto condemnatus / interprete Michael Gottlieb Agnethlero.

    Agnethler, Michael Gottlieb, 1719-1752. | Date: 1750
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