The Trial and Sentences of all the Prisoners, Which Commenced on Wednesday, The 11th of September, 1822 before Mr. Baron Graham, Mr, Justice Best, and Mr. Justice Richardson, the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and Sheriffs of London. Mr. Alderman Ansley, &c. At Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey'

Execution broadside printed with an account of the trial and sentences of all the prisoners, that came before the Old Bailey from 11th September 1822. The broadside includes a generic woodcut engraving of a crowd before the gallows outside Newgate and briefly describes the crimes of those accused and the verdict and punishment given.

Until 1868 public hangings were a popular form of entertainment for the London crowd. Such occasions provided an opportunity for cheap printers and street vendors to 'turn a penny on the street' by selling accounts of the crimes, trial and 'dying speeches' of executed criminals as souvenirs to the baying spectactors. As soon as the trap fell the street vendors began running amongst the crowd selling the broadsides. Execution broadsides were published by a small number of printers many of whom, such as Thomas Birt, James Catnach and James Pitts were based around the Seven Dials area of London. Spelling and grammar was often poor and the details not always accurate. Although ususally printed between the end of the trial and the date of the execution (usually a gap of a few weeks) they could be quickly changed to accomodate last minute information such as reprieves and dying confessions. The printers often used battered woodcuts, and, for the gallows scene used a stock block with a pierced central section to allow the sex and required number of hanging figures to be changed as required. Female criminals were depicted by using a block for a male figure, cut square at the knee to represent a skirt.