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37. Executions during the Lent Assizes

Published / Created:: [1827]
Call Number:: File 52 Ex96 827++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text and still image
Abstract:: "Broadside with four columns of prose and three woodcuts, one along the top with a line of 19 hanged persons, and in the centre two scenes, one of a man slitting the throat of a boy, the other of a man in prison surrounded by his weeping family."--British Museum online catalogue and "The text describes 14 different cases heard in April 1827, that resulted in the hanging of the person found guilty. None of the cases seems to have any relation to the two scenes in the woodcuts."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Caption title., First lines: Execution of Richard Thomas, for murder. Richard Thomas was indicted for the muder of Mary Ann Matilda Taylor ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: J. Catnach, printer, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Topic):: Murderers, Executions and executioners, Hangings (Executions), Homicides, Prisoners, and Cells (Rooms & spaces)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Executions during the Lent Assizes

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

Published / Created:: [1 January 1798]
Call Number:: 798.01.01.03
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
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., and Mounted to: 32.5 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:: Published Jany. 1, 1798 by J. Caulfield
Subject (Name):: Hobry, Marie, -1688,
Subject (Topic):: Homicides, Criminals, Dismemberment, Burning at the stake, Knives, and Demons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Mary Aubrey, a French midwife who murdered her husband in Long Acre [graphic] : anno 1687-8.

39. Miss Martha Ray [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1 May 1779]
Call Number:: 523 H11 779cj
Collection Title:: Frontispiece. Case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman, and of his acquaintance with the
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of Martha Ray; bust length, looking to left; in oval, with scene of her street murder beneath; illustration to unknown publication."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Miss Martha Reay
Description:: Title from text in image., Bound in as frontispiece in an extra-illustrated copy of: The case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statment from bottom edge., and Mounted to 21.1 x 12.8 cm
Publisher:: Published 1st of May 1779 by Fielding & Walker, Pater Noster Row
Subject (Name):: Reay, Martha,
Subject (Topic):: Victims of crimes and Homicides
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Martha Ray [graphic].

40. Terrible massacre de femmes dont l'histoire na jamais donne l'éxemple [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1792]
Call Number:: Print00981
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Terrible massacre de femmes dont l'histoire na jamais donne l'example
Description:: Title etched above image., Publisher and place of publication derived from Revolutions de Paris., Date from item., In margin top left and right: Rev. de Paris ; No. 165. P. 430., From: Révolutions de Paris, 1-8 September 1792., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:: Louis Marie Prudhomme
Subject (Geographic):: France
Subject (Name):: Salpêtrière (Hospital).
Subject (Topic):: Massacres, Hospitals, Crowds, Soldiers, Prisoners, Homicides, Prostitutes, and History
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Terrible massacre de femmes dont l'histoire na jamais donne l'éxemple [graphic].

41. The operation The blood & vitals from her wounds he drew, ... [graphic]

Published / Created:: [1768]
Call Number:: Print01005
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Published: The Political Register. Vol. 2, June, 1768., In lower margin: The Blood & Vitals from her Wounds he drew, And Fed the Hounds that help'd him to pursue. Dryden., British Museum description: Satirical frontispiece to the Political Register, June 1768, showing Britannia stabbed by Lord Bute, her blood caught in bowls held by Lords Weymouth and Barrington; behind on the right, Lord Mansfield hands a bowl of blood to Lord Chatham who is seated his gouty leg on a stool and holding a crutch; on the steps in front of them, Lord Talbot drinks greedily from another bowl, a spit hanging by his side instead of a sword identifies him Lord Steward of the Household; behind on the left, Fletcher Norton, in legal robes, stands drinking from another bowl, an unidentified man leans forward to look at Britannia as she falls back, and another lawyer stands behind drinking from yet another bowl., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793., Talbot, William Talbot, Earl of, 1710-1782., and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789.
Subject (Topic):: Great Britain, Politics and government, Politicians, Blood, Crutches, Bowls (Tableware)., and Homicides
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The operation The blood & vitals from her wounds he drew, ... [graphic]

42. The whole particulars of a most barbarous, cruel, and horrid murder, committed upon the body of W. Weare, Esq. --- : together with the dreadful confessions of Hunt and Probart [sic].

Published / Created:: [1823]
Call Number:: File 523 W362 823++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text and still image
Alternative Title:: Just published --- Price twopence ---
Description:: Caption title., First line: On Friday night 24th ult. a murder was committed at a place about 6 miles from the town of Watford, Herts. ..., Printed in four columns. With two large woodcuts beneath the title illustrating the murder and the discovery of the body. A third, smaller woodcut depicting the burial of the victim appears in the lower right, above a poem with the heading "A copy of verses": A horrid deed I will relate, but newly brought to light, a deed so foul and barbarous, you've seldom heard the like ..., The Radlett murder, also know as the Elstree murder. The victim was William Weare was murdered by John Thurtell, who owed him a gambling debt, and his accomplices Joseph Hunt and William Probert., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: J. Catnach, printer, 2, Monmouth-Ct., 7 Dials, London
Subject (Geographic):: England, Hertfordshire., and England.
Subject (Name):: Weare, William, -1823., Thurtell, John, 1794-1824., Hunt, Joseph, active 19th century., and Probert, William, -1825.
Subject (Topic):: Murder, Criminals, and Homicides
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The whole particulars of a most barbarous, cruel, and horrid murder, committed upon the body of W. Weare, Esq. --- : together with the dreadful confessions of Hunt and Probart [sic].

43. [Bloody newes from Dover] [graphic].

Published / Created:: [not before 1647]
Call Number:: 647.02.13.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A later print designed and etched to look like the woodcut that appeared on the title-page of a pamphlet of the same title. The image shows "Iohn and Mary Champian" described within image as "Presbyterian" and "Anabaptist", respectively, at the moment when Mary, holding the severed head of their baby in her right hand, points at the rest of the body with the left. John (on the left) raises his hands at the horror. At Mary's feet is the knife lying in foreground. The mother allegedly killed the child rather than have it christened
Alternative Title:: Bloody news from Dover
Description:: Title and publication date based on the and Original woodcut appeared on the title-page of the anonymous pamphlet: Bloody newes from Dover : being a true relation of the great and bloudy murder, committed by Mary Champion (an Anabaptist) who cut off her childs head, being 7 weekes old, and held it to her husband to baptize ... [London?] : [publisher not identified], printed in the yeare of discovery, Feb. 13. 1647.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Topic):: Baptism, Anabaptists, Children, Couples, and Homicides
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Bloody newes from Dover] [graphic].

44. [The stabbing of Matilda] [art original].

Published / Created:: [ca. 1800]
Call Number:: 24 17 791P Copy 7
Collection Title:: Opposite page 228. Castle of Otranto.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the characters Matilda and Theodore shown at center talking in a church, one on either side of the statue marking the tomb of Alphonso; Theodore wears full armor and Matilda wears an orange gown. Behind Matilda on the right is Manfred, who interrupts the conversation by reaching over Maltida's shoulder and stabbing her with the dagger held in his left hand. The interior of the church forms the background, with statues in alcoves along the wall on the right and a row of arched windows along the wall on the left
Description:: Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date of production supplied by curator., and Mounted opposite page 228 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Subject (Name):: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):: Churches, Interiors, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Homicides
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [The stabbing of Matilda] [art original].