The martyrdom of Scottish people who ignored a religious observance: four men are hanging together on a scaffold while a group of people is trying to force a naked woman with an infant to climb into a sack for the purpose of being thrown into the river and drowned. Etching after D. Dodd.

  • Dodd, Daniel.
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[1765?]
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43123i
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The martyrdom of Scottish people who ignored a religious observance: four men are hanging together on a scaffold while a group of people is trying to force a naked woman with an infant to climb into a sack for the purpose of being thrown into the river and drowned. Etching after D. Dodd. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[London] : [J. Cooke], [1765?]

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 16.4 x 10.7 cm

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A woman with her sucking infant tied together in a bag, and thrown into a river in Scotland; and four men hung at the same time for eating goose on a fast day. Engraved for the Revd Dr Southwell's new book of martyrs. Dodd delin.

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Wellcome Collection 43123i

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