Genre: Etchings England London 1775 / Subject (Name): Perreau, Daniel, -1776.

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Published / Created:: published as the act directs August 1st, 1775.
Call Number:: 775.08.01.07 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Margaret Rudd and Daniel Perreau, principals in the famous forgery trial of 1775
Alternative Title:: Mr. D. Perreau
Description:: Title from item. and At top right of plate: London magazine.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Rudd, Margaret Caroline, 1744 or 1745- and Perreau, Daniel, -1776.
Subject (Topic):: Criminals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Rudd ; Mr. D. Perreau. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [1775 or 1776?]
Call Number:: 775.00.00.18
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Two men flanking a woman in a bonnet are seated at a table with two unidentified men standing on either side. Drawings tacked to wall behind them appear to show, in one, the seated men hanged on a gallows which is depicted as a skeleton, and in another the devil carrying the woman to hell. The image has been surmised to refer to the Perreau brothers (hanged for forgery in 1776) and their accomplice Mrs. Rudd
Description:: Title from item., Sheet cropped within plate mark., and Text above image: "I suspected there was foul play."
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England, London., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Perreau, Daniel, -1776., Perreau, Robert, d. 1776, and Rudd, Margaret Caroline, b. 1744 or 5.
Subject (Topic):: Forgery, Trials (Forgery), Skeletons, Hangings, Hell, and Devil
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The stratagem [graphic].