Satire on Arthur Beardmore showing him as Dick Swift, the notorious thieftaker, who was transported in April 1765. Swift is sitting at a table teaching his young son the Ten Commandments from a damaged volume in which the word 'not' has been torn from the page so that Commandment VIII reads "Thou shalt steal". A print of Beardmore teaching his son is pinned to the wall behind Swift; a burglar's mask and pair of pistols protrude from his coat on the back of his chair; a key and pick-locks and an execution broadside hang from the drawer of his table. The boy holds a horn book, from his pocket protrudes a paper reading, "Get you gone / raw Head &amp; /Bloody Bones / Here is a Child / dont fear you"; he picks a robe from his father's pocket and a hangman's noose is suspended above his head.  1765
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1765<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1765-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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