Impostor Collection

Norton I / American Royal
JOSHUA " EMPEROR" NORTON I Claimant to the imperial throne of North America (1859); he made a fortune in real-estate speculation

Princess Caraboo by Fortunino Matania
Mary Baker (n饠 Willcocks) (1791-1864) a Devonshire cobblers daughter and noted impostor. Posing as the fictional Princess Caraboo

Cartoon, Lord Coleridge, British lawyer and judge
Cartoon, John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820-1894), British lawyer, judge, and Lord Chief Justice of England. Ah! I must go to the music-hall

Princess Caraboo and Napoleon by Fortunino Matania
Mary Baker (n饠 Willcocks) (1791-1864) a Devonshire cobblers daughter and noted impostor. Posing as the fictional Princess Caraboo

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky portrayed as an imposter
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky(1831-1891). Russian mystic and writer portrayed in the last year, satirised by her detractors

William Fuller
WILLIAM FULLER Impostor associated with Titus Oates in the Popish Plot. Date: 1670 - 1717

Miles Prance, Informer
MILES PRANCE, Catholic goldsmith who found fame during the Popish Plot as an informer, claiming to reveal the murderers of Edmund Berry Godfrey : perjurer, impostor. Date: flourished 1678 - 1689

The Frog Suitor
Woman is courted by a frog - but can she be sure he is really a prince in disguise ? (Theres a pun on the French word pretendant which means both suitor and impostor) Date: 1919

William Fuller - 2
WILLIAM FULLER Impostor associated with Titus Oates in the Popish Plot, aged 32

Arthur Orton / Vfair 1871
Arthur Orton, who claimed to be sir Roger Doughty Tichborne, but couldn t persuade the courts to agree with him

JANE GIBBS impostor who pretends to be a servant or a Quaker afflicted by misfortune, wheedling mony from gullible gentlemen

Mary Tofts, Rabbit Mum
Mary Tofts holding one of the rabbits to which she claimed to have given birth; she was shown to be an impostor, yet deceived St Andre, one of the leading physicians of the day

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