<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Mary Aubrey, a French midwife who murdered her husband in Long Acre [graphic] : anno 1687-8.</dc:title><dc:date>[1 January 1798]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"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</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed to plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>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.</dc:description><dc:description>Text to the left of title: Her son 12 years of age acquitted as acting by compulsion.</dc:description><dc:description>Text to the right of title: She was hanged &amp; burnt at Tyburn.</dc:description><dc:description>Mounted to: 32.5 x 27.5 cm.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>