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Sarah Malcolm executed in Fleet Street, March [the] 7th 1732 for robbing the chambers of Mrs. Lydia Duncomb in [the] Temple and murdering her, Eliz. Harrison & Ann Price
Title
Sarah Malcolm executed in Fleet Street, March [the] 7th 1732 for robbing the chambers of Mrs. Lydia Duncomb in [the] Temple and murdering her, Eliz. Harrison & Ann Price / W. Hogarth (ad vivum) pinxit.
Published
[London] : [publisher not identified], [not before March 1733]
Physical Description
1 print : mezzotint ; plate mark 200 x 188 mm
Notes
Title etched below image.
Date based on publication of Hogarth's version.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 129.
Provenance
George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Summary
A reversed copy of a Hogarth print. Portrait of Sarah Malcolm, shown three-quarter length and seated as she leans with her hands on a table to left, looking back over her left shoulder. She wears a white apron and a white shawl over her head.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 04, 2014
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, no. 1909
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait prints.
Engravings - England - London - 1733.
Etchings - England - London - 1733.
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