Lodowick Campbell. Engraving by R. Graves, 1820.

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[1820?]
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2010603i
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"Thief-taker" is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "One who detects and captures a thief; spec. one of a company who undertook the detection and arrest of thieves"

"Sir William Musgrave, a gentleman of the deepst research, could gather no farther particulars of this man other than that he was the reputed bastard brother of Archibald Campbell, Duke of Argyll and Greenwich, who died in 1761, and that for some atrocious offence he was convicted, and suffered death at Edinburgh. That his crime was not of an ordinary nature, may naturally be supposed from the uncommon manner his portrait represents him in confinement in the Tolbooth"--James Caulfield, Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, London 1820, pp. 105-106

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1820?]

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1 print : engraving ; image and border 12 x 9.8 cm

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Lodowick Campbell. (Thief-taker.) R. Grave sc.

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Wellcome Collection 2010603i

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