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. A bloody knife has been added, on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on publication of Hogarth's version., Lower right corner, following title: Price 6d., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 129., Mounted on page 56 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : mezzotint with line engraving on laid paper ; sheet 19.6 x 15.3 mm, and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Copy in reverse after Hogarth's portrait, with the addition of a clergyman behind Malcolm holding up a wedding ring, and, to left, a view of her execution in Fleet Street. 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. The unidentified printmaker has added a piece of paper and pen and ink stand on the table
Alternative Title:
Sarah Malcom and Sarah Malcolm
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue: March 1732/3., On page 53 in volume 1. Plate mark 170 x 121 mm., and Above image: a note in Steevens's hand: See Mr. Nichols Biographical anecdotes &c., edit. 3d, p. 172.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733,
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Clergy, Criminals, and Hangings (Executions)
Copy in reverse after Hogarth's portrait, with the addition of a clergyman behind Malcolm holding up a wedding ring, and, to left, a view of her execution in Fleet Street. 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. The unidentified printmaker has added a piece of paper and pen and ink stand on the table
Alternative Title:
Sarah Malcom and Sarah Malcolm
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue: March 1732/3., and Mounted to sheet 226 x 236 mm; with leaf from the Newgate calendar (p. 255-6) about her crime.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733,
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Clergy, Criminals, and Hangings (Executions)
