Matthew Hopkins witch finder general / [graphic]

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Title: Matthew Hopkins witch finder general / [graphic]
Creator: Caulfield, James, 1764-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1792]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Full-length portrait of Matthew Hopkins, witch-finder who was later hanged as a sorcerer in 1647, looking left and shown wearing a hat and cloak, holding a walking stick in his right hand and standing next to a tree beside a foot path
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate from: The wonderful museum, 1792.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 12.7 x 9 cm, on sheet 21 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Periodical illustrations
Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1792
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hopkins, Matthew, -1647
Subject (Topic): Witch hunting
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Hopkins, Matthew, -1647 > Caricatures and cartoons
Witch hunting
Staffs (Sticks)
England > London > 1792

Access: Public
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