Dec 02, 2004 - Sale 2025

Sale 2025 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
(BROADSIDE.) Dying Behaviour, &c. of those Six Unfortunate Malefactors, who were executed this Morning, viz: Thomas Clark, John Durham, John Orrel otherwise Lanzemore, Daniel Mackaway, James Robertson, and Frederick Smith [caption title]. Crude woodcut vignette showing the 6 hanging from gallows. Broadside, 341x155 mm; margins trimmed close without text loss. [London? 1798?]

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Announcement of the hanging of 6 felons at Newgate on 10 November 1798, Clark for shooting at a Bow Street Runner, the rest for robbery or burglary. The broadside gives brief obituaries for each, followed by an account of the execution. Not in ESTC.