The stratagem [graphic].

Description

Title: The stratagem [graphic].
Published / Created: [1775 or 1776?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Two men flanking a woman in a bonnet are seated at a table with two unidentified men standing on either side. Drawings tacked to wall behind them appear to show, in one, the seated men hanged on a gallows which is depicted as a skeleton, and in another the devil carrying the woman to hell. The image has been surmised to refer to the Perreau brothers (hanged for forgery in 1776) and their accomplice Mrs. Rudd
Description: Title from item.
Sheet cropped within plate mark.
Text above image: "I suspected there was foul play."
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss collection, v. 2.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England London 1775
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Perreau, Daniel, -1776.
Perreau, Robert, d. 1776
Rudd, Margaret Caroline, b. 1744 or 5.
Subject (Topic): Forgery
Trials (Forgery)
Skeletons
Hangings
Hell
Devil
Subjects: Perreau, Daniel, -1776
Perreau, Robert, d. 1776
Rudd, Margaret Caroline, b. 1744 or 5.
Forgery > England > London
Trials (Forgery) > Great Britain
Skeletons
Hangings
Hell
Devil
England > London > 1775

Access: Public
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