Elizabeth Sawyer executed in the year 1621 for witchcraft : from a rare print int eh collection of W. Beckford Esqr. [graphic]

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Title
Elizabeth Sawyer executed in the year 1621 for witchcraft : from a rare print int eh collection of W. Beckford Esqr. [graphic]
Contributor
Caulfield, James, 1764-1826, publisher.
Published / Created
[6 February 1794]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pubd. Feby 6, 1794, by I. Caulfield
Abstract

Elizabeth Sawyer is shown full-length walking left with a divining rod in (Fate) pointing at her

Description
Title engraved below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Symbols: finger of fate
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 123 x 107 mm, on sheet 24 x 15 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
794.02.06.01

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1794
Material
etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Sawyer, Elizabeth, -1621,
Subject (Topic)
Divining rods
Symbols
Witches
Subjects
Sawyer, Elizabeth, -1621
Divining rods
Symbols
Witches
England > London > 1794

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
7970812
Object ID (OID)
10939014

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