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(Facing p. 361.)
Artist
- Name:
- Meadows, Joseph Kenny
- Dates:
- 1790-1874
- Country:
- UK
Illustration
- Subject:
- People
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Smith, John Orrin
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Harold B. Lee Library, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Heads of the people: or, Portraits of the English, vol. 1
- Author(s):
- Collective work
- Publisher:
- London: Robert Tyas, 1840
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
A man wearing a grim expression stands facing the viewer, with a hand resting in the loop of a noose as a crowd can be seen in the background, assembled below the scaffold. At the time the book was written, the hangman of Newgate Prison—which is referred to in the written sketch associated with the picture—would have been William Calcraft.
The illustration is complemented by the following words from The Clandestine Marriage, a comedy by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick: A ridiculous superfluity.
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, Album of types, black & white, crowd, hanging, male, portrait, sullen, Victorian
