Printed Ephemera — 1776-1795
Jack Ketch Arrested
Copper engraved print depicting Jack Ketch being arrested and taken into custody when attending a malefactor to the place of execution.
The original print was published in the Newgate Calendar.
The print refers to John Price a petty thief who eventually became hangman for the County of Middlesex. In 1718 he brutally asaulted an elderly woman Elizabeth White in Bunhill Fields who subsequently died. Having been apprehended at the scene by two passers-by Price was sent to Newgate and tried for her murder. His execution was set for Saturday, the 31st of May, 1718. As he was riding in the cart he several times pulled a bottle of Geneva out of his pocket to drink before he came to the place of execution, which was in Bunhill Fields, where he committed the murder. 'Having arrived at the fatal tree, he was, upon Mr. Ordinary's examination, found so ignorant on the ground of religion he troubled himself not much about it; but valuing himself upon his former profession of being hangman, styled himself finisher of the law, and so was turned off the gibbet, aged upwards of forty years.'
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- NN34068
- Object name:
- Jack Ketch Arrested
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- Production date:
- 1776-1795
- Material:
paper
- Measurements/duration:
- H 188 mm, W 111 mm
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- Record quality:
- 60%
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- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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- Creative commons usage:
- CC BY-NC 4.0
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