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Pickpockets

Thief who engages in pickpocketing

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Images referencing Pickpockets

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  • Two huntsmen in a clearing are surrounded by gypsies who read their palms as a decoy for stealing their belongings. Etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after B. North.
  • A crowd has gathered outside Carlton House in London, as the carriage of Frederick Duke of York passes on its way to the palace; a pickpocket works the crowd. Coloured aquatint.
  • Crowds at Greenwich Park, dancing, watching side shows, etc. Engraving by A. H. Payne after A. Wray.

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    A bogus wizard appears to raise a devil out of the ground for a customer whose pocket is picked by the wizard's accomplice. Coloured print after Thomas Rowlandson, 1800.

    Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827. | Date: 1800 | Reference: 46992i
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    Two huntsmen in a clearing are surrounded by gypsies who read their palms as a decoy for stealing their belongings. Etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after B. North.

    North, Brownlow, 1778-1829. | Date: 20 November 1804 | Reference: 577916i
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    A prostitute going out in a taxi to a client to steal his wallet; advertising the reality of prostitution in the Soviet Union. Colour lithograph after E. Osipov, ca. 1987.

    Osipov, E. | Date: [1987?] | Reference: 660340i
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    Crowds at Greenwich Park, dancing, watching side shows, etc. Engraving by A. H. Payne after A. Wray.

    Wray, A. W., active 1840. | Reference: 33082i
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    A crowd has gathered outside Carlton House in London, as the carriage of Frederick Duke of York passes on its way to the palace; a pickpocket works the crowd. Coloured aquatint.

    | Date: June 16 1821 | Reference: 32000i

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