Sarah Malcolm executed in Fleet Street, March [the] 7th 1732 for robbing the chambers of Mrs. Lydia Duncomb in [the] Temple and murdering her, Eliz. Harrison & Ann Price

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Title: Sarah Malcolm executed in Fleet Street, March [the] 7th 1732 for robbing the chambers of Mrs. Lydia Duncomb in [the] Temple and murdering her, Eliz. Harrison & Ann Price
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist
Published / Created: [not before March 1733]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A reversed copy of a Hogarth print. Portrait of Sarah Malcolm, shown three-quarter length and seated as she leans with her hands on a table to left, looking back over her left shoulder. She wears a white apron and a white shawl over her head
Description: Title etched below image.
Date based on publication of Hogarth's version.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 129.
Mounted on page 59 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
1 print : mezzotint on wove paper ; sheet 19.1 x 17.7 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge.
Provenance: Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933. Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 200 x 188 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English