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Murderers

Images

  • The death-mask of Maria Manning, the murderer: three views. Lithograph by John Lane.
  • The trial of William Palmer for the Rugeley poisonings / [William Palmer].
  • Death mask of Martin, a parricide. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • An Italian brigand attacking a gentleman on a road; exhibiting the phrenological 'propensity' of 'destructiveness'. Steel engraving by S. Wolff, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband. Photograph, 19--.
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Catalogue

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    China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being attached to the execution post. Photograph, 19--.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 663451i
    Part of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband
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    Madness and murder : gender, crime and mental disorder in nineteenth-century Ireland / Pauline M. Prior ; foreword by Angela Bourke.

    Prior, Pauline. | Date: 2008
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    A drunken man is arrested for killing his wife. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: 1847 | Reference: 25970i
    Part of: The bottle
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    • Online

    The trial of William Palmer for the Rugeley poisonings / [William Palmer].

    Palmer, William, 1824-1856. | Date: [1856]
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    A maniacal man is visited in prison by his children, all ruined through his drinking habit. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: 1847 | Reference: 25972i
    Part of: The bottle
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