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Thurtell [print]

Accession number
PML 136667.248
Published
[London] : Published by W. Aldous, 15, Great Russell St. Bloomsbury, [ca. 1823?].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item; date from secondary sources.
Library's copy trimmed within platemark to an oval measuring 110 x 87 mm.
Mounted onto a leaf from an album of collected song sheets and broadsides (PML 136667) the individual folios disbound and housed in two boxes.
Description
1 print : hand col. stipple engraving ; sheet: 110 x 87 mm, closely trimmed to oval
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Head-and-shoulders portrait of John Thurtell, notorious murderer of William Weare in Radlett, Hertfordshire, on Oct. 24, 1823, the subject shown facing 3/4 to the left.
Classification
Department