print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1978,U.1965
- Title
- Object: The execution and decapitation of Watt
- Description
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A headless corpse on a low table beneath the gibbet, blood dripping from the neck into a basket; the executioner, axe in his right hand, holding aloft in his left hand a severed head for the benefit of the crowd round the scaffold; illustration to Knapp & Baldwin's Newgate Calendar, vol.III, p.209.
Etching
- Production date
- 1794
- Dimensions
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Height: 80 millimetres
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Width: 103 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Plate above article entitled "Robert Watt and David Downie convicted of high treason", continued on verso
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1978
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.1965
