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Dismemberment

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  • Martyrdom of Saint Emmeramus. Engraving.
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    The enlightenment: humanity and scaffold.

    | Date: 1994
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    Martyrdom of Saint Emmeramus. Engraving.

    | Reference: 4833i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Humanoid figures, some dismembered, and a figure in black, with black snakes, the face of an owl, and a large white dove above

    O., active approximately 1949 | Date: 17 October 1949 | Reference: PP/ADA/C/8/114
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Ephemera

    An account of a most barbarous and unparalleled MURDER of Ann Smith, a ballad singer, by a wretch named Samuel Thorley, a butcher's assistant, at Congleton, Cheshire, and who actually eat [sic] part of the flesh of his unfortunate victim.

    | Date: [1820?]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    A woman who has chopped and sawed up a body on a table stands by a coffin, with a black hill behind on a red ground

    Bonwick, Gillian, active approximately 1966 | Date: 29 March 1966 | Reference: 2913485i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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