Pirate

The photograph is of an unremarkable, middle-aged man wearing a Victorian photographer's idea of a Pirate costume. A feathered tricorn hat sits on his head and he brandishes a wooden cutlass and an unlikely-looking flintlock pistol. The overall effect is comic. But this man really was a pirate. He killed fifteen men when he attacked a Revenue vessel off Finisterre and, eighteen months after this photograph was taken, he was hanged at Chatham.
He was a pirate but he just didn't look piratical enough.