Newgates lamentation, or, The ladys last farewell to MacLean [graphic].

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Title: Newgates lamentation, or, The ladys last farewell to MacLean [graphic].
Alternative Title: Ladys last farewell to MacLean
Ladies last farewell to MacLaine
Published / Created: [1750]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: MacLaine in leg-irons stands in the middle of his prison cell, surrounded by several women, a cleric, and a man who appears to be saying an emotional good-bye to the prisoner prior to his execution. One of the women dabs her eyes with a large handkerchief. On the far left stands the goaler, with a bunch of keys in his hand
Description: Title engraved above image.
Date from contemporary ms. annotation.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Farewell my friends let not your hearts be fill'd, my time is near & I'll with calmness yeild [sic] ...
Watermark: countermark IV.
Mounted to 26 x 31 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1750
Etchings England London 1750
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching on sepia colored laid paper ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Name): Maclaine, James, 1724-1750
Subject (Topic): Criminals
Subjects: Maclaine, James, 1724-1750 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1750
Criminals > England
England > London > 1750
18th century

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