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Museum number: 1848,0708.43
Title: Object: Sarah Malcolm
Description: Sarah Malcolm, three-quarter length, turned to right but looking to left, her hands resting on a simple wooden table. 1733 Etching and engraving
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Production date: 1733
Production place: Published in: London (England)
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Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 195 millimetres (cropped); Width: 177 millimetres (cropped)
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Curator's comments: Hogarth's painting of Sarah Malcolm is in the National Gallery of Scotland. The murders and subsequent execution took place in February-March 1733 in the New Style.
Bibliographic references: Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition (129); Paulson 1965/70 / Hogarth's graphic works: first complete edition (129); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (1907); O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (1)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1848
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1848,0708.43

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