Elizabeth Brownrigg. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 18--.

Date:
[between 1800 and 1899]
Reference:
2009527i
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Description

Midwife in the City of London. Found guilty of the murder and torture of children, hanged at Tyburn on 14 September1767, after which her body was displayed in Surgeons' hall at the Old Bailey (Oxford dictionary of national biography)

Publication/Creation

[London?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1800 and 1899]

Physical description

1 print : stipple engraving ; image and lettering 15.5 x 10 cm

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Lettering

Elizabeth Brownrigg. Executed for cruelty and murder. Engraved by R.Cooper.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2009527i

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