Theft Collection

For Healths Sake
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing two cheeky monkey pilfering fruit from a sleeping orang utan, Gran pop. Title is For Healths Sake Take Things Quietly

The Great Train Robbery, 8th August 1963. Wanted Poster for Ronald Buster Edwards. Date: 1963

The Eastcastle Street Robbery, 1952
A page from the Illustrated London News, detailing the Eastcastle Street Robbery of 1952, when a Post Office van was hijacked and its contents, 200, 000 in soiled notes, were stolen

The Great Train Robbery, 8th August 1963. Wanted Poster for Bruce Reynolds. 1963

Dick Turpin
Indictment of Richard Dick Turpin, for stealing a mare worth three pounds from Thomas Creasy, at Welton, Yorkshire, 1st March 1739 Date: 1st March 1739

Mona Lisa Says Goodbye
The Mona Lisa says goodbye when the painting is stolen from the Louvre, Paris

(The Morning After of a Faun) Le Lendemain d un Faune (or, What an Afternoon ) - The Great success of the new ballet L Apres-Midi d un Faune in which the faun, failing to abduct the nymph herself

James Burgess, the railway guard who was part of the gang that took part in the bullion robbery on the South-Eastern railway on the night of 15 May 1855

Criminal, Thomas Carr
THOMAS CARR Clerk of respectable family gone to the dogs. Crimes included theft with violence & using his legal expertise to assist criminals

Indignities shown to the corpse of William the Conqueror - on his death in France, his body was stripped of clothing and jewellery. Date: 1087

Ratner branch bank strong room door, drill proof and blowpipe resisting. Date: circa 1920s

Comic postcard, Couple on the beach at night - theft of ice cream cornet Date: 20th century

The theft of the La Tour Pastels from St. Quentin, Dec 1918
Article describing the theft of the pastel work of Maurice Quentin de la Tour and showing a selection of three examples of his most famous pastel work

Moai on Easter Island
Monuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Artist Gaspard Duche de Vancy sketching a Moai while a native steals his hat. From Jean Francois Laperouses Voyage

Skeleton of Death stealing gold from a Miser
Skeleton of Death stealing gold coins and treasure from a Miser in his vault with barred windows. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein

Tatler cover Clothes Worth Stealing 1961
Front cover of The Tatler featuring an art thief contemplating a portrait of the latest fashions for 1961 in an art gallery. Date: 1961

Cartoon, Poaching on Forbidden Preserves. 19th century

The French, after their successful campaign in Italy, loot Venice, removing art treasures from the cathedral of San Marco Date: 1797

Print
An untitled mezzotint on paper, hand coloured with watercolour and gouache, showing a scene in which a woman is stealing a stocking purse and pocket watch from a sleeping man, dated c.1790

What Would You Do?
Bonzo, the cute canine created by George Studdy in The Sketch magazine in the 1920s, wonders what to do now that some heinous thief has stolen his sausages from under his nose

Mona Lisa Back with Baby
The Mona Lisa is back after her temporary absence... with a baby!

Humanised foxes with turkeys and geese on a Christmas card
Humanised foxes with turkeys and geese in a cage on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Being Unable to Take Paris, WW1
Cartoon, Being Unable to Take Paris, showing Crown Prince Wilhelm during the First World War, taking anything else he can lay his hands

Colenso Diamond Wanted Poster
Poster offering reward of e750 for the return of the Colenso Diamond. On 29th April, 1965, from the Mineral Gallery at the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd, SW7

DI Jill McTeague, Arts & Antiques Squad, with necklace
DI Jill McTeague of the Arts & Antiques Squad of the Metropolitan Police, holding a stolen necklace which has been recovered

Pub landlady stops snack, 1858
" Dip your roll in your own pot at home!" A fierce looking landlady berates a hungry customer caught in the act of helping himself to the contents of her cooking pot

West End riots: shops looted by rioters, 1886
Articles of plunder from shops, used as missiles during the 1886 West End riots. At an open air meeting of unemployed East End dock workers and artisans in Trafalgar Square

WW1 - Theft of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris by a Zeppelin ! Date: circa 1916

Little Folk Misfitz - Tom the Pipers Son. circa 1910

Caricature of A W Pinero as a clown
Caricature of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934), English actor, playwright and stage director. Seen here as a Christmas pantomime clown at St Jamess Theatre, London

Venice Looted by French
The French pillage Venice, carrying away the famous horses of San Marco Date: 1797

Dr Syntax robbed in St Giles, London. Date: 1820

He Didn t Want to Do It
Promotional postcard for He Didn t Want to Do It Date: circa 1910

Plunder by Ben Travers
Promotional postcard for Plunder by Ben Travers. First produced at Kings Theatre, Southsea, 18th June and Aldwych Theatre, 26th June 1928

Cartoon, The product of German science, WW1
Cartoon, The product of German science, showing a group of learned men looking at a subhuman German soldier, with a lookalike Neanderthal man on display in the background. Date: 1916

Cartoon, How to get hold of some plonk, WW1
Cartoon, How Herbinet used System D to get hold of some plonk. Showing how a soldier gradually extracts wine from a large barrel in a stable. Date: 1916

Yes, we have no bananas! by George Studdy
Yes, we have no bananas! Bonzo sits on a street corner with an empty basket in his mouth, while a man runs away with a bunch of bananas

Nursery Rhymes -- goblin and bats, bird stealing pipe
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a goblin and bats flying about the night sky by moonlight. Below -- a bird steals a plump mans pipe. Date: early 20th century

Louis Lepine Photo
LOUIS LEPINE - French chef de police responsible for many innovations : the Bonnot gang and the theft of the Mona Lisa were among the problems he had to face : in 1911. Date: CIRCA 1900

Cheeky Cockney man quizzes a London Policeman
The wit of the Classic London Cockney - cheekily enquiring of a Policeman (leading home a small lost child): - " Whats e done, Guvnor?" !!! Date: 1892

Billiards Illustrated - Trying for the pocket - A youthful pickpocket has a rummage through an elderly gentlemans trouser pocket whist he browses some titles on a bookstall. Date: circa 1903

Fairies stealing fruit
Fruit the Fairies steal away, never comes again

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