Mary Aubrey, a French midwife who murdered her husband in Long Acre [graphic] : anno 1687-8.

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Title: Mary Aubrey, a French midwife who murdered her husband in Long Acre [graphic] : anno 1687-8.
Contributor: Caulfield, James, 1764-1826, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Jany. 1, 1798 by J. Caulfield
Abstract: "Mary Aubrey, dismembering her husband's body with a broad-bladed knife, encouraged by two demons behind; her twelve-year-old son holding his severed head at left; small image inset behind at left showing her being burnt at Tyburn."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Copy of an 1688 print, with the supplied title in the London Picture Archive (record no. 26631): Murder in Long Acre. The original print, with a transcribed title from the caption below the image: A representation of the bloody murder committed by Mary Aubrey, a French midwife, which was burn [sic] to death the 2d day of March 1687/8. Cf. London Metropolitan Archives collections, reference code SC/GL/PR/LC/42/021/p7500042.
Text to the left of title: Her son 12 years of age acquitted as acting by compulsion.
Text to the right of title: She was hanged & burnt at Tyburn.
Mounted to: 32.5 x 27.5 cm.
Provenance: Blackwell's Rare Books; March 2021.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.8 x 20 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English