[Bloody newes from Dover] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Bloody newes from Dover] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Bloody news from Dover
Published / Created: [not before 1647]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A later print designed and etched to look like the woodcut that appeared on the title-page of a pamphlet of the same title. The image shows "Iohn and Mary Champian" described within image as "Presbyterian" and "Anabaptist", respectively, at the moment when Mary, holding the severed head of their baby in her right hand, points at the rest of the body with the left. John (on the left) raises his hands at the horror. At Mary's feet is the knife lying in foreground. The mother allegedly killed the child rather than have it christened
Description: Title and publication date based on the
Original woodcut appeared on the title-page of the anonymous pamphlet: Bloody newes from Dover : being a true relation of the great and bloudy murder, committed by Mary Champion (an Anabaptist) who cut off her childs head, being 7 weekes old, and held it to her husband to baptize ... [London?] : [publisher not identified], printed in the yeare of discovery, Feb. 13. 1647.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 10 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England 1647
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Topic): Baptism
Anabaptists
Children
Couples
Homicides
Subjects: Baptism
Anabaptists > England
Children
Couples
Homicides
England > 1647

Access: Public
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