Sujet
The Criminal Museum at the Convict Office, Metropolitan Police Department, Scotland-Yard, 1883. Creator: Joseph Swain.
Légende
The Criminal Museum at the Convict Office, Metropolitan Police Department, Scotland-Yard, 1883. 'Pistol with which Oxford shot at Her Majesty, 1840; Prof. Zandevestd's Fortune Telling Machine; The property or a distinguished prisoner...a curious museum, which is only open to magistrates and others engaged in the administration of the criminal law...[Here are] a grim-looking collection of historical deadly weapons, house-breaking implements, handcuffs, plaster casts of the heads of criminals, and various articles which have been used in the perpetration of crime. Revolvers and other pistols are very numerous, [including] that with which Edward Oxford shot at the Queen, and others which have been handled by insane pretenders to regicide...; knives, razors, and daggers, "life-preservers," clubs, and hammers, with which mortal blows have been struck...The instruments and apparatus of burglary may profitably be examined with a view to prevention; the "jemmies" or crowbars, the picklocks and false keys, and Charles Peace's folding ladder, by which he could ascend to a first-floor window. Boxes and canisters which once held an exploding mixture, with the apparatus of ignition, for murderous or destructive purposes, are worthy of notice'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A50_243
Model release
NA
Property release
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
53,8Mo (5,7Mo) / 42,4cm x 31,8cm / 5008 x 3758 (300dpi)