Thief Collection

The Thief - painting by Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa
Postcard image after a painting by Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa La Ladrona (" The Thief" ) in the los Tiros art gallery in Granada, Spain

Col. Blood / Jewel Thief
Colonel Thomas Blood, an audacious rogue known as the Man who stole the Crown Jewels from the basement of the Tower of London

Advertising card for Singer Sewing Machines. One boy is so entranced by the new Singer in the shop window, he is unaware his friend is pinching some of the berries from his basket! However

Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef; I went to Taffys house

Mary Frith / Pickpocket
Mary Frith aka Moll Cutpurse, a notorious master thief & an Ugly who frequently dressed as a man; escaped from Newgate by bribery

Victorian Greeting Card - The Pickpocket
Two penguins out for a stroll whilst a sparrow picks a pocket. Date: circa 1890

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

(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

The Humorist Easter Number 1938
The Humorist Easter Number front cover illustrated by William Heath Robinson featuring two exhausted cyclists sleeping off a picnic lunch, unaware that somebody is riding away on their tandem bicycle

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

Thief palm, Phoenicophorium borsigianum (Stevensonia sechellarum)

Jacques Aymar finds a thief
French sourcier Jacques Aymar directs his baguette at four prisoners to learn which of them committed a robbery.. Date: 1688

Raffles by E W Hornung & Augene Presbrey
Promotional postcard for Raffles the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Presbrey. First produced at the Comedy Theatre, 12th May 1906

Silhouette - Postcard Design
'The Love Thief'. Young couple making love under a tree, while her chaperone dozes under a brolly. Date: 1920s

Stop Thief!
You Come Across many Lively Things at Morecambe'. Dog steals the dress of a woman stranded in a beach bathing tent. Date: 1904

The Queen of Hearts baked some tarts, illustration by Chris G. Temple Date: circa 1920

The Strawberry Thief Chintz
A design for a chintz titled The Strawberry Thief, by William Morris, featuring a pair of thrushes, one with a strawberry in his mouth

Woodpecker Tapestry
A tapestry designed by William Morris, inspired by a story from Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which a sorceress transforms King Picus into a woodpecker, having refused to become here lover

Georgian cartoon, Equality - Stand and Deliver! - scruffy thief threatens well dressed scarecrow Date: circa 1820s

Gordon Harker
Actor Gordon Harker (1885-1967) had a prolific film and stage career. Here he is being celebrated for his portrayal of Cockney characters. Date: circa 1932

Actor Conrad Veidt
German actor Conrad Veidt, shortly to appear as Diasar the Magician in the film The Thief of Baghdad'. Date: circa 1939

Triptych of the Crucifixion, 1535, by Jan van Scorel (1495-1)
Jan van Scorel (1495-1562). Dutch painter. Triptych of the Cruxifixion, 1535. Central panel. Detail. Catharijneconvent Museum. Utrecht. Netherlands

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

Comic postcard, Boy and girl with a go-kart Date: 20th century

Barber cutting his thumb trying to shave a customer
Barber cutting his thumb with a razor trying to shave a customer with soft cheeks. More Miseries

Coconut crab, Birgus latro

Chasing a thief. Woodcut. Artist: Wladyslaw Skoczylas

Sabu in The Thief of Bagdad. Sabu (1924-1963) child star of British films of the late 1930s, mostly in adventure films produced by Alexandra Korda. Born in India. Relocated to Hollywood in the 1940s

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

Sir George Alexander and Dame Irene Vanburgh in The Thief
Sir George Alexander (1858-1918) - British Actor

CRIME / JACK SHEPPARD
Jack Sheppard (1702-1724); English thief; committed almost daily robberies in or near London. Captured through Jonathan Wild. Daring escapes from Newgate prison; hanged. Date: 1724

The Cattle Thief, with Geo A Street as Mardo. 1912

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

Julanne Johnston as Princess in The Thief of Bagdad
Julanne Johnston (1900-1988) as the Princess (Caliphs daughter) in the Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler film, The Thief of Bagdad. 1924

Two Little Vagabonds by George R Sims & Arthur Shirley
Promotional postcard for Two Little Vagabonds by George R. Sims and Arthur Shirley from Les Deux Gosses by Pierre Decourcelle (Theatre de lAmbigu-Comique, Paris, 19th February 1896)

Little fat goblin stealing cabbages
A little fat goblin stealing cabbages, much to the distress of the farmer. first published 1879

Mary Frith aka Moll Cutpurse, a notorious master thief & an Ugly who frequently dressed as a man; escaped from Newgate by bribery. Date: c.15841659

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

Thief steals gentlemans watch
A fashionable young man in Cincinnati is prevented by the cowardice of female friends from collaring the thief who stole his watch

Highwaymen punished
A new plan is proposed fo the punishment of highwaymen by hard labour on the roads. Date: 18th Century

Cover page of pamphlet, A Night in a Workhouse
The cover page of A Night in a Workhouse -- an undercover expose of conditions in the casual ward of the Lambeth workhouse in London

Rome. Fresco by Taddeo Zuccari (1529-1566), 1559. Basilica o
Italy. Rome. Basilica of Saint Sabina. Interior with fresco by Taddeo Zuccari (1529-1566), 1559, in the apse

Pontius Pilate asked the Jews if they prefer to free the thief Barabbas, or Jesus. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Little Folk Misfitz - Tom the Pipers Son. circa 1910

Zoological Misfitz - Ha Ha ! Mr Fox. early 20th century

Caricature of A W Pinero as a clown
Caricature of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934), English actor, playwright and stage director

C18 London Home
Street frontage of a house in the Old Bailey, London, at one time occupied by the notorious thief Jonathan Wild. Date: early 18th century

Flight / Fantasy / Air Polic
A prediction of a policeman giving chase to a thief using air machines. Date: 1885

Raffles the Amatuer Cracksman by E Hornung & Augene Presbrey
Promotional postcard for Raffles the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Presbrey. First produced at the Comedy Theatre, 12th May 1906. The character originated in short stories by Hornung

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

The Thief by Cosmo Gordon-Lennox
Reverse of a promotional flyer showing press reviews for The Thief by Cosmo Godron-Lennox, 26th April 1909. whilst touring to the Lyceum Theatre, Ipswich. Date: 1909

Stop Thief! by Carlyle Moore
Promotional postcard for Stop Thief ! by Carlyle Moore. First produced in England, at the Theatre Royal, York, 14th October and New Theatre, 21st October 1915. Date: 1915

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

Clown stealing goose on a Christmas card
Clown stealing a goose from an angry woman on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

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

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Sealyham terrier
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, a Sealyham terrier known as The Blighter, an accomplished cake-stand thief. Date: 1927

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, a dog who stole eggs
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, a black retriever who stole eggs and ate them, seen here in his normal listening position, a picture of innocence. Date: 1927

Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman
A scene from Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman, at the Comedy Theatre, London. Based on the stories by E.W.Hornung, the play showed a series of incidents in the life of the gentleman thief

Preparing to film The Thief of Bagdad, Hollywood, USA
Preparing to film The Thief of Bagdad (released in 1924), adapted from the Arabian Nights stories. Parts of the set, and prop items such as large jars, can be seen. Date: 1923

Camels at Douglas Fairbanks Studio, Hollywood, USA
Camels at Douglas Fairbanks Studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA, at the time of the filming of The Thief of Bagdad (released 1924). Date: 1923

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

Francois Westermann
FRANCOIS-JOSEPH WESTERMANN unscrupulous soldier and thief, who acted without pity to suppress the Vendee resistance, but was guillotined along with Danton. Date: 1751 - 1794

Barman has a stern word with a disreputable customer who has been stealing pewter beer tankards, which he has been turning into coinage to bring back to spend at the same establishment

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

Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Baghdad (US Film - 1924). Date: 1924

SPAIN. Barcelona. Sants Montjuic. Graffiti in

The Fables of Bidpai. Fol. 4: The punished thief

Prisoner mug shot 1873
Prison record for Catherine Reardon, prisoner 2573, aged 48, arrested and convicted by jury for larceny 26th April 1873

Morris Island, South Carolina. The rogues march drumming a thief out of camp. Date July or August 1863. Morris Island, South Carolina. The rogues march drumming a thief out of camp

Policeman stops a man with cart
" I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand

Edmund I stabbed by Leofa
Edmund I, King of England from 939, is stabbed to death by Leofa, an exiled thief, while celebrating St Augustines Mass day in Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire Date: 946

Edmund I murdered by Leofa
Edmund I, King of England from 939, is stabbed to death by Leofa, an exiled thief, while celebrating St Augustines Mass day in Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire Date: 946

Lassoing a cattle thief Date: 1926

Street music: 17th century hurdy gurdy player
Street scene showing a blind hurdy gurdy player performing in 17th century Holland. Date: 17th century

Highwaymen at Kentish Town
Two women are robbed and bound by highwaymen in the fields near Kentish Town. Date: 19th Century

Highwaymen in Germany
A carriage is attacked in the woods by a gang of highwaymen in Germany. Chaos ensues. Date: 13th Century

Stagecoach robbery by women bandits
" Old Man Harverys six pretty and buxom daughters captured while holding up a stage coach near Salmon City, Idaho, by a Sheriffs posse". Date: 19th Century

Bandits in Italy
A group of Italian bandits accost an unsuspecting traveller, threatening him with their rifles and stealing anything of value. 19th Century

Bandits in Germany
German bandits attack their victims, one thrown to the ground and one pinned against a tree, during the Thirty Years War. 1643

Brothers rob a train at Rocky Cut
Brothers rob a train on the Missouri Pacific Railway at Rocky Cut. 19th Century

A mother dedicates her infant son as a thief Date: 1910

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