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Printed Ephemera — 1795

The Skeleton of Eliz.h Brownrigg in Surgeon's Hall

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Copper-engraved print depicting the skeleton of Elizabeth Brownrigg on display in Surgeon's Hall, Old Bailey. Elizabeth had been midwife to St Dunstan's Workhouse, Fetter Lane she was hanged at Tyburn on 14 September 1767 for cruelty and murder: She had tortured three girl apprentices, and killed one of them, Mary Clifford who lived in her house in Fetter Lane.
Brownrigg's skeleton was displayed in a niche at Surgeons' Hall in the Old Bailey, ‘that the heinousness of her cruelty might make the more lasting impression on the minds of the spectators’ (Gent. Mag.).

It is likely the engraving was printed in: The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches. Containing new and authentic accounts of all the lives, adventures, exploits, trials, executions and last dying speeches, confessions, (as well as letters to their relatives never before published) of the most notorious malefactors and others of both sexes and all denominations, who have suffered death and other exemplary punishments for murders, burglaries, felonies, horse-stealing, bigamy, forgeries, highway robberies, footpad robberies, perjuries, piracies, rapes, riots, mobbing, sodomy, starving to death, sheep stealing, swindling, high-treason, petit-treason, sedition, and other misdemeanors. Interspersed with notes, reflections, and remarks, arising from the several subjects, moral, useful, and entertaining. Including the transactions of the most remarkable prisoners, tried for high treason at the Old Bailey, viz. Hardy, Horne Tooke, Thelwall, &c. Likewise the trials of Watt, Downe, Palmer, Fitzgerald, Margarott, &c. &c. at Edinburgh for High Treason, Sedition, Libels, &c. &c. Comprehending also, all the most material passages in the sessions papers for a long series of years; together with the ordinary of Newgate's Account of the capital convicts; and complete narratives of all the most remarkable trials Also a great variety of the most important lives and trials never before published in any former work of the kind. The whole containing the most faithful narratives ever yet published of the various executions, and other exemplary punishments, which have happened in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the year 1700, to the end of the year 1795. Properly arranged from the records of court. By William Jackson, Esq. Of the Inner-Temple, barrister at law; assisted by others

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Printed Ephemera
Object ID:
NN34063
Object name:
The Skeleton of Eliz.h Brownrigg in Surgeon's Hall
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print, engraving

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Production date:
1795
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paper, ink

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H 205 mm, W 119 mm (overall)
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