Verkko“behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime. ” with these words as a starting point, michael gross, leading chronicler of. Verkkothomas byrnes (left) watches a criminal struggle to avoid his mug shot for the rogues’ gallery. Riis/museum of the city of new york.

Szabó’s book rogues, a study of characters, published six years after brady’s gallery, aims for another kind of representativeness — not of. Verkkoset against the backdrop of new york's gilded age, with its extremes of plutocratic wealth, tenement poverty, and rising social unrest, rogues' gallery is.