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The prince of swindlers, and his virtuous associate.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
The prince of swindlers, and his virtuous associate.
Description
English: Handbill with half-length portraits (not caricatured) of Major Semple and a fashionably dressed woman seated side by side on two chairs. He wears a cocked hat and regimentals. Apparently an advertisement of an account of Semple (not in B.M.L.); printed beneath the title: 'For the curious History of the above Characters, containing \ The Correspondence with his Royal Highness the Duke of York, Bath Adventures, &c. &c. \ So interesting and explanatory to the Philanthropic World,' \' 29 December 1796
Etching and crayon-manner, with letterpress text
Depicted people Associated with: Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany and Bishop of Osnabrück
Date 1796
date QS:P571,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 108 millimetres (plate)
Height: 130 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 149 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 145 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6577
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

Major Semple, or Semple-Lisle as he called himself (b. 1759), was a notorious adventurer and swindler of tradesmen. According to his autobiography, 1799 (portrait), he was engaged in quasi-diplomatic missions. In 1796 he attracted attention by stabbing himself in Newgate when about to be transported. See 'D.N.B.' The lady is not mentioned in either of the accounts in the B.M.L. She is identified on the print as 'Daughter of Mother Cole' (in Foote's 'Minor', i.e. Mother Douglas).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6577
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